Snowbird-M. Craft

[ti:Snowbird] [ar:M. Craft] [al:Silver & Fire] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Snowbird (雪鸟) - M. Craft (Martin Craft) [00:20.27]Snowbird was just a little girl once [00:23.26] [00:23.94]All tangled up in dandelion hair and polka dots [00:26.69] [00:27.56]And a picture book mind full of dreams and designs [00:30.77]And visions of faraway places [00:33.38]Yeah she drew underwater worlds and cities in the stars [00:37.90]In the Asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars [00:41.56]In felt tips and crayons her little works of art [00:45.16]All promised a future of greatness [00:48.02] [00:48.70]She caught the sunlight in her eye [00:52.53]Underneath the winter sky [00:55.84]I'll paint the world until I die she said [01:00.22]One day I'll spread my wings and fly high like a snowbird [01:11.03] [01:15.42]Yes I will [01:16.05] [01:24.78]Her daddy died when she was only ten [01:27.55] [01:28.43]But all she cried came out in ink and in pen [01:31.37]She drew charcoal streets leading down to dead ends [01:35.21]Where heads hung low in sorrow [01:37.78] [01:38.57]But she was left a small fortune at the reading of the will [01:42.21]About enough for a life and then another life still [01:45.78]And with her mother in a haze of vodka and pills [01:49.62]Snowbird had just dreamed of tomorrow [01:52.02] [01:53.21]She caught the sunlight in her eye [01:57.04]Underneath the winter sky [02:00.35]I'll paint the world until I die she said [02:04.71]One day I'll spread my wings and fly high like a snowbird [02:16.31] [02:21.73]Yes I will [02:22.34] [02:23.94]That's right [02:24.55] [02:29.35]Years went by and she hit eighteen [02:32.10] [02:32.64]And left home for the art school scene [02:35.67]To paint the people of the shadows and the faces unseen [02:39.59]For her hero was now Egon Schiele [02:42.15]But she did a couple of little canvases and bad super 8 [02:46.75]And a conceptual piece that was thirty years too late [02:50.22]It was all she could fit between the dinner and the dates [02:53.89]With dreamers and drummers and dealers [02:56.74] [02:57.67]She caught the sunlight in her eye [03:01.32]Underneath the winter sky [03:04.80]I'll paint the world until I die and she said [03:09.21]One day I'll spread my wings and fly high like a snowbird [03:20.39] [03:22.55]Yes I will [03:23.17] [03:31.15]Well who's that girl in the little black dress [03:36.48] [03:37.02]Her head held high like a real princess [03:40.52]A glimmering shimmering coked up mess [03:43.73] [03:44.23]A fashion trash art school failure [03:46.67] [03:47.36]Yeah her fingernails are all there's left to paint in her world [03:51.37]She dishes out the dirt with the party powder girls [03:54.83]Who think love comes in diamonds and wisdom in pearls [03:58.47]And art is just paraphernalia [04:01.17] [04:02.21]She's lost the sunlight from her eye [04:05.70]There's only a mirror ball left in her sky [04:09.31]I'll do what I want till the day that I die [04:12.23]Now see me spread my wings I can fly high like a snowbird [04:31.32] [04:52.58]Snowbird was just a little girl once she was [04:58.44] [04:59.71]Snowbird was just a little girl once [05:02.93] [05:06.80]Snowbird was just a little girl once she was [05:12.74] [05:13.99]Snowbird was just a little girl once but now she can fly