Three Flights Up (Live)-Don McLean

[ti:Three Flights Up (Live)] [ar:Don McLean] [al:American Pie(Live)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Three Flights Up (Live) - Don McLean (唐·麦克林) [00:24.52]On the first floor' [00:28.56]On the first floor [00:32.68]On the first floor [00:33.65]There's a young girl reeling [00:35.82]Her body's numb and without feeling [00:37.69]As illusions dance on the midnight ceiling [00:40.59]Now she's falling now she's kneeling [00:47.09]It's almost like she's bowed in prayer [00:50.43]A savior she's about to bear [00:53.62]She screams for help [00:55.87]But no one's there [01:01.95]On the first floor [01:12.56]On the first floor people walk the halls [01:15.22]But none can hear her desperate calls [01:17.18]There is no sound beyond the walls [01:19.61]So to the telephone she crawls [01:25.72]She telephones her only friend [01:27.98]The one on whom she can depend [01:31.78]But the phone rings on without an end [01:35.67]Then rings no more [01:41.16]On the first floor [02:20.90]There's a party on the second floor [02:23.04]And through the picture window you can see them all [02:30.01]They're laughing and they're dancing [02:32.36]Admiring the Renoir that's hanging on the wall [02:41.69]But in the master bedroom [02:43.12]Where the coats are piled high [02:46.70]A silent saddened lady [02:49.25]Thinks of what it's like to die [02:53.38]And as she dwells on all [02:55.48]The years she still has left to face [02:59.50]She wonders how she'll [03:01.66]Ever find someone to take his place [03:10.19]Then suddenly she's jarred by [03:11.86]The ringing of the phone [03:15.45]Oh why do you ring now just when [03:18.00]I want to be alone [03:21.85]So she walks into the fasted [03:24.04]Take some water from a cup [03:30.07]But the telephone stops [03:32.08]Ringing just before she picks it up [04:04.54]My family was very poor [04:08.08]So I worked hard to be secure [04:14.38]I married one I had to wed [04:19.15]And not the one I loved instead [04:25.97]When I was young my blood ran wild [04:30.52]But we stayed married for the child [04:36.82]Now three flights up I'm all alone [04:42.22]My wife is dead my child is grown [04:51.14]My daughter leads a wayward life [04:54.76]I got [04:55.42]She's been a failure as a wife [05:02.57]Oh she lives just one floor down [05:07.26]She never calls or comes around [05:28.58]Step off the platform and onto the train [05:33.27]Look out your window and into the rain [05:37.53]Watch all the buildings that pass as you ride [05:43.67]And count all the stories that go on inside [05:47.73]And then ask yourself if it must be this way [05:53.03]Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings [05:59.35]Separate us from each others feelings