The Story-Shawn Colvin

[ti:The Story] [ar:Shawn Colvin] [al:Steady On] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Story - Shawn Colvin (肖恩·科尔) [00:03.96]Well we pounded the pavement between dotted lines [00:07.77]But we always belonged to the fugitive kind [00:10.67] [00:11.46]We were never the best but we were better than this [00:15.23]To be made to bow down among princes [00:17.95] [00:18.87]I got thrown around hallways and bedrooms and towns [00:22.39] [00:22.90]And you run from that voice and it drags you around [00:25.88] [00:26.93]It don't matter the ruse or the weapons we choose [00:30.45]There is only one thing that can free us [00:33.22] [00:34.66]Oh so here I am lion and the lamb [00:48.68] [00:49.73]I was born to be telling this story [00:53.51]I could only be telling this story [00:55.74] [00:56.99]I will always be telling this story [00:59.45] [01:05.77]Well our father married our mother too young [01:08.98] [01:09.54]And he took on a world like a fortunate son [01:12.70] [01:13.51]But in the cellar downstairs waiting for the bomb scare [01:17.40]He would hide from us under the kitchen [01:20.71]Where she simmered so soft with her weapons of tin [01:24.71]And like so many suppers she just gave us to him [01:28.83]And he never did guess in her cast iron dress [01:32.51]She was burning beyond recognition [01:33.00] [01:36.79]Oh it's not over yet oh that I can't forget [01:48.05] [01:51.55]I am going to be telling this story [01:55.29]I was born to be telling this story [01:57.67] [01:58.93]I will always be telling this story [02:01.29] [02:21.41]Sometimes I feel so reckless and wild [02:25.10]Sometimes I feel like a motherless child [02:28.94]I gave nobody life I am nobody's wife [02:32.42]And I seem to be nobody's daughter [02:36.19]So red is the color that I like the best [02:40.20]It's your Indian skin and the badge on my chest [02:44.14]The heat of my pride and the lips of a bride [02:47.70]The sad heart of the truth and the flag of youth [02:51.64]And blood that is thicker than water [02:53.00] [03:03.58]I was made to be telling this story [03:14.56]I was born to be telling this story [03:18.50]I am going to be telling this story [03:22.06]I could only be telling this story [03:25.31]I will always be telling this story