The Changing Lights-Stacey Kent/Graham Harvey/John Parricelli/Jeremy Brown/Matt Home

[ti:The Changing Lights] [ar:Stacey Kent] [al:I Know I Dream : The Orchestral Sessions (Deluxe Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Changing Lights - Stacey Kent (史黛西·肯特)/Graham Harvey/Matt Home/Jeremy Brown/John Parricelli [00:14.10]Written by：Jim Tomlinson/Kazuo Ishiguro [00:28.20]Were we leaving Rio [00:31.03]Or were we in New York [00:33.88]I remember bossa nova on the breeze [00:41.59]We were in the back seat [00:43.77]Of a cab we couldn't afford [00:47.12]You were holding my old rucksack on your knees [00:54.16]You leaned towards your window [00:56.66]To see the traffic up ahead [01:00.95]These commuters here you said [01:04.45]Could be the walking dead [01:11.00]And we vowed to guard our dreams [01:13.48]From all the storms that lay ahead [01:17.43]From the winds of fear and age and compromise [01:24.37]And we laughed about the hopelessness [01:27.72]Of so many peoples lives [01:30.61]As we slowly moved towards the changing lights [01:52.16]It was near Les Invalides [01:54.46]Or perhaps Trafalgar Square [01:57.75]It was late at night the city was asleep [02:05.58]You were clowning in the back seat [02:07.37]With some friends we'd found somewhere [02:11.25]The kind back then we always seemed to meet [02:18.15]There were those in this great world you said [02:21.35]Just fated to go far [02:24.95]And among the lucky ones [02:28.34]Were we inside that car [02:34.55]And your friends began to sing [02:37.54]When you wish upon a star [02:41.35]And you clapped along like you didn't have a care [02:48.37]But once I turned to glance at you [02:51.46]As we drove across the square [02:54.94]And your face looked haunted in the changing lights [03:49.62]Was it last September [03:51.56]It was autumn more or less [03:55.05]You were waiting to cross some busy boulevard [04:02.57]Talking on your phone [04:04.86]To your family I guess [04:08.71]Your briefcase tucked up high beneath your arm [04:15.61]As I approached you turned around [04:19.02]A question in your eye [04:21.93]As though I might ignore you [04:25.35]And just simply walk on by [04:34.64]But we smiled and talked awhile [04:39.33]About each others lives [04:42.60]And once or twice I caught a wistful note [04:49.16]Then you moved towards the crossing [04:52.51]As the cars slowed to a halt [04:57.23]And we waved and parted beneath the changing lights [05:25.68]And we waved and parted beneath the changing lights