'73: It Could Have Been Paradise-The Magnetic Fields

[ti:'73: It Could Have Been Paradise] [ar:The Magnetic Fields] [al:50 Song Memoir] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]'73: It Could Have Been Paradise (73：那可能是天堂) - The Magnetic Fields [00:03.97]Written by：Stephin Merritt [00:07.94]We lived in Paia [00:09.51] [00:11.04]Hippie central I could hop to the beach [00:15.27] [00:16.09]Sometimes we would hitchhike [00:17.87] [00:19.24]Miles to school school being a figure of speech [00:24.22]Where we sang kahuli aku kahuli mai [00:33.09]We lived on a zendo [00:34.77] [00:35.63]In the forest silence for days on end [00:40.60] [00:41.41]Caught up on my reading [00:43.02] [00:44.62]Huckleberry Finn was my only friend [00:49.44]It could have been paradise [00:52.69] [00:53.25]But for the horrible bugs [00:57.73]I could have gone to a real school [01:01.06] [01:01.59]But for the murderous thugs [01:06.27]In the forest of paradise [01:09.38] [01:10.04]We gathered magic mushrooms [01:14.82]But mostly I sat around [01:18.12] [01:18.75]In rooms as quiet as tombs [01:23.54]It was heaven [01:25.08] [01:27.67]My mother took up with [01:29.49] [01:30.85]A trumpeter red bearded pork pie hat [01:35.32] [01:36.06]Found a lyric of mine [01:38.20] [01:39.27]He took it home and set music to that [01:43.93] [01:44.47]To impress my mother [01:46.26] [01:47.69]He stole my song better back off mister [01:52.28] [01:52.85]Fast forward two decades [01:54.86] [01:55.90]Same thing happened but with Shakespeare's sister [02:00.55] [02:01.06]Why should it be paradise [02:04.25] [02:04.99]That's just a place people go [02:08.75] [02:09.41]It was home for a little while [02:12.73] [02:13.43]But you can give me the snow [02:18.10]Give me the snow [02:20.26] [02:22.36]My friend shell was named for [02:24.05] [02:25.22]A shell on the beach she spoke pidgin English [02:29.94] [02:30.77]Everyday I swam out [02:32.47] [02:33.84]Onto the reef catching exotic fish [02:38.25] [02:38.84]It could have been paradise [02:41.99] [02:42.78]With one good reason to stay [02:47.45]If it had been paradise [02:50.42] [02:50.93]Guess we'd still be there today [02:55.97]Singing away