Stones In The Road-Mary Chapin Carpenter

[ti:Stones In The Road] [ar:Various] [al:Pure... Singer Songwriters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stones In The Road - Mary Chapin Carpenter (玛丽翠萍·卡本特) [00:30.16]When we were young we pledged allegiance [00:32.67] [00:33.98]Every morning of our lives [00:36.74] [00:37.51]The classroom rang with children's voices [00:40.59] [00:41.35]Under teacher's watchful eye [00:43.40] [00:44.76]We learned about the world around us [00:47.91] [00:48.78]At our desks and at dinnertime [00:50.89] [00:52.20]Reminded of the starving children [00:55.17] [00:55.96]We cleaned our plates with guilty minds [00:58.16] [00:59.95]And the stones in the road [01:02.19] [01:02.84]Shone like diamonds in the dust [01:05.95] [01:06.90]And then a voice called to us [01:09.43] [01:10.13]To make our way back home [01:13.17] [01:14.36]When I was ten my father held me [01:17.28] [01:18.14]On his shoulders above the crowd [01:20.71] [01:21.70]To see a train draped in mourning [01:24.36] [01:26.20]Pass slowly through our town [01:28.03] [01:29.36]His widow kneeled with all their children [01:32.08] [01:33.07]At the sacred burial ground [01:35.46] [01:36.30]And the TV glowed that long hot summer [01:39.69] [01:40.40]With all the cities burning down [01:42.88] [01:44.31]And the stones in the road [01:46.32] [01:47.32]Flew out beneath our bicycle tires [01:50.38] [01:51.39]Worlds removed from all those fires [01:54.27] [01:54.80]As we raced each other home [01:57.61] [02:27.03]And now we drink our coffee on the run [02:29.88] [02:30.84]We climb that ladder rung by rung [02:33.98] [02:34.53]We are the daughters and the sons [02:37.47] [02:38.21]And here's the line that's missing [02:40.97] [02:44.21]The starving children have been replaced [02:46.92] [02:47.84]By souls out on the street [02:49.90] [02:51.07]We give a dollar when we pass [02:54.02] [02:55.01]And hope our eyes don't meet [02:57.22] [02:58.84]We pencil in we cancel out [03:01.55] [03:02.16]We crave the corner suite [03:04.71] [03:05.86]We kiss your a** we make you hold [03:08.66] [03:09.50]We doctor the receipt [03:11.19] [03:14.03]And the stones in the road [03:16.14] [03:16.85]They fly out from beneath our wheels [03:19.92] [03:20.75]Another day another deal [03:23.10] [03:24.18]Before we get back home [03:26.16] [03:28.44]Stones in the road [03:30.38] [03:31.54]Leave a mark from whence they came [03:34.70] [03:35.60]A thousand points of light or shame [03:38.72] [03:39.65]Baby I don't know