This Shirt-Mary Chapin Carpenter

[ti:This Shirt] [ar:Mary Chapin Carpenter] [al:party doll and other favorites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Shirt - Mary Chapin Carpenter (玛丽翠萍·卡本特) [00:12.24]This shirt is old and faded [00:15.01]All the color's washed away [00:17.35] [00:17.89]I've had it now for more damn years [00:20.01]Than I can count anyway [00:22.28] [00:23.57]I wear it beneath my jacket [00:26.44]With the collar turned up high [00:28.57] [00:29.16]So old I should replace it [00:32.10] [00:32.64]But I'm not about to try [00:35.38] [00:40.85]This shirt's got silver buttons [00:43.58]And a place upon the sleeve [00:45.88] [00:46.41]Where I used to set my heart up [00:49.11]Right there anyone could see [00:51.44] [00:52.37]This shirt is the one [00:54.05]I wore to every boring high school dance [00:58.25]Where the boys ignored the girls [01:00.70]And we all pretended to like the band [01:03.83] [01:10.03]This shirt was a pillow for my head [01:13.00]On a train through Italy [01:15.20] [01:15.87]This shirt was a blanket beneath the love [01:19.10]We made in argeles [01:21.27] [01:21.82]This shirt was lost for three whole days [01:24.81]In a town near buffalo [01:27.01] [01:27.59]'Till I found the locker key [01:30.08]In a downtown trailways bus depot [01:33.72] [01:45.50]This shirt was the one I lent you [01:47.75] [01:48.26]And when you gave it back [01:50.27] [01:51.29]There was a rip inside the sleeve [01:54.23]Where you rolled your cigarettes [01:56.50] [01:57.16]It was the place I put my heart [01:59.72]Now look at where you put a tear [02:02.10] [02:03.04]I forgave your thoughtlessness [02:05.60]But not the boy who put it there [02:08.16] [02:09.12]This shirt was the place your cat [02:11.53]Decided to give birth to five [02:14.26] [02:14.99]And we stayed up all night watching [02:17.73]And we wept when the last one died [02:21.08]This shirt is just an old faded piece of cotton [02:25.79] [02:26.85]Shining like the memories [02:29.97]Inside those silver buttons [02:33.74] [02:44.90]This shirt is a grand old relic [02:47.57]With a grand old history [02:49.77] [02:50.54]I wear it now for Sunday chores [02:52.98] [02:53.49]Cleaning house and raking leaves [02:56.45]I wear it beneath my jacket [02:59.40]With the collar turned up high [03:01.75] [03:02.32]So old I should replace it [03:05.33] [03:05.91]But I'm not about to try