Our Song-Joe Henry

[ti:Our Song] [ar:Joe Henry] [al:Civilians] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Our Song (我们的歌) - Joe Henry [00:21.43]I saw Willie Mays [00:22.68] [00:24.98]At a Scottsdale home depot [00:26.87] [00:29.56]Looking at garage door springs [00:32.17] [00:33.02]At the far end of the fourteenth row [00:36.66] [00:39.24]His wife stood there beside him [00:41.10] [00:43.30]She was quiet and they both were proud [00:46.27] [00:47.92]I gave them room but was close enough [00:50.70] [00:51.62]That I heard him when he said out loud [00:55.02] [00:59.02]This was my country [01:01.03] [01:03.63]This was my song [01:05.43] [01:06.77]Somewhere in the middle there [01:09.07] [01:09.89]Though it started badly and it's ending wrong [01:14.24] [01:17.72]This was my country [01:19.68] [01:20.44]This frightful and this angry land [01:24.05] [01:25.01]But it's my right if the worst of it might [01:27.80] [01:28.76]Still somehow make me a better man [01:34.50] [01:44.38]The sun is unforgiving and [01:47.42]There's nobody who would choose this town [01:51.10] [01:52.16]But we've squandered so much of our good will [01:56.02] [01:56.88]That there's nowhere else will have us now [01:59.98] [02:03.02]We push in line at the picture show [02:05.44] [02:07.06]For cool air and a chance to see [02:09.44] [02:11.82]A vision of ourselves portrayed as [02:15.42] [02:15.94]Younger and braver and humble and free [02:19.87] [02:23.05]This was our country [02:25.00] [02:27.48]This was our song [02:29.36] [02:30.55]Somewhere in the middle there [02:32.91] [02:33.76]Though it started badly and it's ending wrong [02:38.13] [02:41.45]This was our country [02:43.22] [02:44.16]This frightful and this angry land [02:47.53] [02:48.63]But it's my right if the worst of it might [02:52.15]Still somehow make me a better man [02:58.13] [03:17.10]I've started something I can't finish [03:19.32] [03:20.36]And I barely leave the house it's true [03:23.65] [03:25.78]I keep her out on my sores and joints [03:28.80] [03:29.87]But I've guess I've had my blessings too [03:32.85] [03:35.53]I've got my mother's pretty feet [03:37.65] [03:38.67]And a factory keeps my house in shade [03:42.07] [03:44.18]My children they've both been paroled [03:46.75] [03:47.47]And we get back all the peace we've made [03:51.68] [03:54.39]I feel safe so far from heaven [03:57.23] [03:57.82]From towers and their ocean views [04:00.74] [04:02.42]From here I see the future coming [04:05.30] [04:05.98]Across what soon will be beaches too [04:10.03] [04:12.86]But that was him I'm almost sure [04:15.50] [04:16.89]The greatest center fielder of all time [04:18.97] [04:20.88]Stooped by the burden of endless dreams [04:24.69] [04:25.99]His and yours and mine [04:28.86] [04:30.59]He hooked each spring beneath his feet [04:33.29] [04:34.50]He leaned over then he stood upright [04:36.96] [04:39.34]Testing each against his weight [04:41.66] [04:43.19]For one that had some play and some fight [04:47.07] [04:49.06]He's just like us I want to tell him [04:52.19] [04:53.19]And our needs are small enough [04:55.86] [04:57.55]Something to slow our heavy door [05:00.63] [05:01.89]Something to help us raise one up [05:05.03] [05:08.89]This was my country [05:10.98] [05:13.60]This was my song [05:15.29] [05:16.52]Somewhere in the middle there [05:18.98] [05:19.72]Though it started badly and it's ending wrong [05:24.16] [05:27.50]This was god's country [05:29.33] [05:30.18]This frightful and this angry land [05:33.47] [05:34.76]But if it's his will the worst of it might [05:37.64] [05:38.23]Still somehow make me a better man [05:44.10] [05:52.51]If it's his will the worst of it might [05:55.78] [05:56.46]Still somehow make me a better man