Calico Plains-Pam Tillis

[ti:Calico Plains] [ar:Pam Tillis] [al:In Concert - One Night Only] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.46]Calico Plains - Pam Tillis (帕姆·泰丽斯) [00:02.49]Written by：Matraca Maria Berg/Michael I. Noble [00:05.00] [00:13.53]Sweet Abilena looks out at the Midwestern sky [00:17.93] [00:23.30]Sweet seventeen with a faraway look in her eyes [00:28.24] [00:33.47]She said I feel like a bird in a cage [00:37.10] [00:38.74]But come September I'm flying away [00:41.86] [00:42.62]I said I'm gonna miss you then I made her promise to write [00:48.46] [00:53.41]Since we were tall as the corn in the spring [00:57.35] [00:58.28]We shared every secret shared every dream [01:02.12] [01:03.10]So anxious to grow in the new summer rain [01:07.08] [01:08.45]And bloom like a rose on the calico plains [01:12.26] [01:24.26]How could she hear as we laughed on that warm summer night [01:28.77] [01:34.12]The tiny heart of the baby she carried inside [01:38.68] [01:44.21]I stood beside her when September came [01:47.74] [01:49.25]Watched her get married and caught the bouquet [01:53.23]And like those hand me down dresses she gave me [01:57.49]I made her dreams mine [01:59.37] [02:03.61]From a seat by the window on wings made of steel [02:08.13] [02:08.98]I stared at the patchwork over the fields [02:12.93] [02:13.84]Where young tears that once fell like warm summer rain [02:17.84] [02:19.07]Were turning to snow on the calico plains [02:22.87] [02:53.83]Sweet Abilena looks out at the Midwestern sky [02:58.02] [03:03.88]Closer to thirty but farther away in her eyes [03:08.80] [03:13.85]She holds her babies like she holds her dreams [03:17.45] [03:18.99]Each night she kisses and rocks them to sleep while [03:22.86] [03:23.85]She reads the letters she makes me promise to write [03:29.42] [03:44.28]Sweet Abliena looks out at the Midwestern sky