Three Flights Up-Don McLean

[ti:Three Flights Up] [ar:Don McLean] [al:Tapestry] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Three Flights Up - Don McLean (唐·麦克林) [00:08.05]On the first floor On the first floor [00:13.66] [00:15.66]On the first floor there＇s a young girl reeling [00:18.41]Her body＇s numb and without feeling [00:19.97]As illusions dance on the midnight ceiling [00:22.41]Now she＇s falling now she＇s kneeling [00:25.98] [00:28.23]It＇s almost like she＇s bowed in prayer [00:31.28]A savior she＇s about to bear [00:33.66] [00:34.22]She screams for help but no one＇s there [00:38.21] [00:42.38]On the first floor [00:44.14] [00:52.06]On the first floor people walk the halls [00:53.95]But none can hear her desperate calls [00:56.26]There is no sound beyond the walls [00:58.22]So to the telephone she crawls [01:00.72] [01:02.15]She telephones her only friend [01:04.15] [01:04.83]The one on whom she can depend [01:07.33] [01:08.16]But the phone rings on without an end [01:11.21]Then rings no more On the first floor [01:18.45] [01:52.97]There＇s a party on the second floor [01:55.46]And through the picture window you can see them all [01:58.95] [02:01.94]They＇re laughing and they＇re dancing [02:04.31]Admiring the Renoir that＇s hanging on the wall [02:08.04] [02:12.16]But in the master bedroom where the coats are piled high [02:15.53] [02:17.15]A silent saddened lady thinks of what it＇s like to die [02:21.58] [02:22.77]And as she dwells on all the years she still has left to face [02:27.01] [02:28.95]She wonders how she＇ll ever find someone to take his place [02:33.56] [02:37.62]Then suddenly she＇s jarred by the ringing of the phone [02:40.86] [02:42.05]Oh why do you ring now just when I want to be alone [02:45.48] [02:47.29]So she walks into the bathroom and drinks some water from a cup [02:51.78] [02:55.21]But the telephone stops ringing just before she picks it up [03:02.50] [03:31.33]My family was very poor [03:33.33] [03:35.39]So I worked hard to be secure [03:38.32] [03:40.63]I married one I had to wed [03:43.19] [03:45.50]And not the one I loved instead [03:48.06] [03:54.36]When I was young my blood ran wild [03:57.41] [03:58.85]But we stayed married for the child [04:01.85] [04:03.53]Now three flights up I＇m all alone [04:06.71] [04:09.21]My wife is dead my child is grown [04:13.08] [04:18.50]My daughter leads a wayward life [04:21.82] [04:22.69]She＇s been a failure as a wife [04:26.37] [04:29.43]And though she lives just one floor down [04:32.36] [04:34.92]She never calls or comes around [04:38.54] [05:00.81]Step off the platform and onto the train [05:03.87] [05:04.87]Look out your window and into the rain [05:07.81] [05:09.36]Watch all the buildings that pass as you ride [05:13.05] [05:14.11]And count all the stories that go on inside [05:18.29]And then ask yourself if it must be this way [05:21.97] [05:23.03]Should walls and doors and plaster ceilings [05:27.15] [05:29.08]Separate us from each others＇ feelings