The Gift-Jerry Jeff Walker

[ti:The Gift] [ar:Jerry Jeff Walker] [al:?Viva Luckenbach!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Gift - Jerry Jeff Walker (杰里·杰夫·沃克) [00:10.94]In a boarding house I'd lay upstairs [00:14.72] [00:16.46]And dream of how I'd live someday [00:18.84] [00:20.64]Downstairs there sat a man who had [00:24.39] [00:25.65]A guitar he never learned to play [00:28.73] [00:31.10]For my thirteenth birthday [00:32.84] [00:33.53]Grandma bought the guitar [00:35.03] [00:35.78]Told me I should learn how to play [00:38.51] [00:40.59]And the gift she gave me changed me [00:43.08]The music is the main thing [00:44.77] [00:45.45]That got me to this point here today [00:48.29] [00:50.06]And I was lucky cause I used her gift [00:53.13] [00:55.08]To get in touch with how to live [00:57.65] [01:00.98]And looking back I now realize [01:06.17]Music changed my life [01:11.26] [01:25.47]Just out of school I had no clue [01:28.67] [01:30.51]Of what it was I'd like to do [01:32.63] [01:34.50]I only know the open road [01:38.02] [01:39.52]Was the way I chose to pass on through [01:42.94] [01:44.87]I took that guitar with me down the lonesome highway [01:48.53] [01:49.54]And I began my search for a song [01:52.18] [01:54.30]And somewhere in the distance the music and the mystery [01:58.23] [01:59.29]Of how I would live come along [02:01.82] [02:03.44]And I was lucky cause I used her gift [02:06.70] [02:08.51]To get in touch with how to live [02:11.08] [02:14.10]And looking back I now realize [02:19.61]That music saved my life music became my life [02:25.33] [02:38.12]As time went by I found that I [02:42.63]Could climb up on the stage and sing [02:45.72] [02:46.78]But when I sang the songs I wrote [02:50.92] [02:52.35]It became a very special thing [02:55.17] [02:57.43]But songs to me were personal [02:59.82]And the business side just killed me [03:01.71] [03:02.33]And I withdrew inside my shell [03:04.84] [03:06.59]With the contracts and the lawsuits [03:08.47] [03:09.22]I started heavy drinking [03:10.74] [03:11.55]Til I finally lost touch with myself [03:15.00] [03:37.01]I guess playing music for money brought problems [03:40.79] [03:42.09]That I didn't face very well [03:44.05] [03:46.50]Being self-taught gave me nothing to lean on [03:50.46] [03:51.02]I had to look in myself [03:53.92] [03:58.85]I took a year off and did some fasting [04:02.83] [04:04.58]Just to clean the cobwebs out [04:06.82] [04:08.82]And I went back to Grandma's guitar [04:12.27] [04:14.09]Just to hear a simple sound [04:16.33] [04:19.02]When I look around me [04:21.15]I saw my loving family [04:22.53] [04:23.34]And a home we had built on a hill [04:25.96] [04:28.34]I discovered the music had led me to the one place [04:32.30] [04:32.92]Where my heart and soul are re-filled [04:37.34]And I was lucky cause I used her gift [04:40.29] [04:42.46]To get in touch with how to live [04:44.76] [04:47.89]And looking back I now realize [04:51.34] [04:53.69]Music saved my life [04:56.01] [04:58.07]Yeah music really saved my life [05:00.44] [05:07.29]Yes music really saved my life