Shasta (Carrie's Song)-Vienna Teng

[ti:Shasta] [ar:Vienna Teng] [al:Warm Strangers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shasta (Carrie's Song) (沙斯塔) - Vienna Teng (史逸欣) [00:15.16]So far so good [00:17.12]You're coming to the bend at the end of the road [00:20.97]You put a hand to the belly that's foreign more [00:24.56]With every day like an oversize load [00:28.26]And you're thinking about clouds the color of fire [00:31.65]And the scent of an orange peel [00:34.54]The way Mt Shasta explodes into windshield view [00:38.61]And your hands steady on the wheel [00:42.02] [00:49.92]So far so good [00:51.59] [00:52.13]Coffee motel coffee diner coffee go on [00:55.55]Styrofoam is drying like the tears that once did flow [00:59.40]Starting 10 o'clock and ending at dawn [01:02.34] [01:02.94]And you can't go back but you're going back [01:06.23]And you don't know what you'll say [01:09.66]You've got half-formed sentences [01:11.85]Explanations for a life half-broken away [01:16.05]And they just may [01:17.87]They'll take you in their arms and then take out their knives [01:20.93]So you drive on thinking [01:22.87]So far so good [01:24.87]But you can't go on much longer like this you know [01:28.83]You're all alone in this world no that's not true [01:32.28]The nice Christian lady told you so [01:35.30] [01:35.91]She was handing out pamphlets by the clinic door [01:40.06]Saying Jesus knows what you've been through [01:43.59] [01:44.32]Take the Savior into your heart my child [01:48.63]There's love waiting for the both of you [01:53.23] [01:54.57]Well you don't believe but you have to believe [01:57.89]It's still crumpled there in your back seat [02:01.26]Were you the hero or the worst kind of coward back there [02:05.04]Putting pavement back under your feet [02:07.70]Couldn't stand the heat [02:09.38]Couldn't stand the thought of ghosts with a negative age [02:12.64]Turn the page [02:13.72]OK [02:14.57]So far so good [02:16.53]You try to sing along to the radio [02:20.43]But it's not your language not your song [02:24.32]It's from some other time ago [02:27.61]And you're thinking about how someone died that day [02:31.30]The you that was so carefully planned [02:33.93]But then again maybe this life is like a sleeping mountain [02:38.91]Waking up to shape the land [02:42.57] [02:44.10]Calm calm let it come let it come back to you [02:50.38] [02:50.99]Calm calm breathe on out you know you know what to do [02:58.01]Calm calm let it come let it come back to you [03:04.22] [03:04.93]Calm calm breathe on out you know you know what to do