Learning The World-Mary Chapin Carpenter

[ti:Learning The World] [ar:Mary Chapin Carpenter] [al:Ashes And Roses] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Learning The World - Mary Chapin Carpenter (玛丽翠萍·卡本特) [00:14.49]Grief rides quietly on the passenger side [00:19.05] [00:20.92]Unwanted company on a long long drive [00:25.43] [00:27.49]It turns down the quiet songs and turns up the din [00:33.45] [00:34.64]It goes where you go it's been where you've been [00:40.38] [00:48.32]And pushing your empty cart mile after mile [00:53.14] [00:55.45]Leaves you weeping in the wilderness [00:59.01]Of the supermarket aisle [01:01.08] [01:02.82]And in the late night kitchen light it sits in a chair [01:08.89]Watching you pretend that it's not really there [01:14.51] [01:18.27]But it is so it is and you ask [01:21.89]Are you predator or friend [01:23.38] [01:25.32]The future or the past [01:27.07] [01:36.08]It hands you your overcoat and opens the door [01:41.28] [01:42.34]You are learning the world again just as before [01:49.14]But the first time was childhood [01:51.45]And now you are grown [01:53.32] [01:56.62]Broken wide open cut to the bone [02:00.12] [02:10.36]And all that you used to know is of no use at all [02:16.62]The same eyes you've always had have you walking into walls [02:23.37]And the same heart can't understand [02:26.81]Why it's so hard to feel [02:30.70]What used to be true [02:34.02]What's now so unreal [02:36.01] [02:37.38]But it is so it is and you say [02:45.03]I wish I were the wind so that I could blow away [02:56.49] [03:28.97]Grief sits silently on the edge of your bed [03:35.11]It's closing your eyes it's stroking your head [03:41.99]The dear old companion is taking up air [03:46.42] [03:50.23]Watching you pretend that it's not really there