Grandmother Song-Vienna Teng

[ti:Grandmother Song] [ar:Vienna Teng] [al:Inland Territory] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Grandmother Song - Vienna Teng (史逸欣) [00:10.56]Oh girl you think you got time [00:12.60] [00:13.23]You're gonna get 'round to it way down the line [00:15.41]But one step two step you fall behind [00:17.42]So you better have a good plan [00:19.98]Oh girl you think you got time [00:22.29]You're gonna get 'round to it way down the line [00:24.66]But I'm telling you no matter what you have in mind [00:27.10]You're still gonna need a man [00:29.35]Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round [00:32.25] [00:38.34]No one's gonna take care of you [00:40.52]In that world you've got yourself into [00:43.09]All the good boys oh baby they're in grad school [00:48.56]Oh girl your story's all wrong [00:50.11]Your dream'll be a nightmare before too long [00:52.06]Turning thirty and still trying to sing your songs [00:54.25]Come on who do you think you are [00:57.63]Oh girl it's too heavy a load [00:59.38]Your mama and your baba they are worried souls [01:01.50]How you gonna raise a family when you're on the road [01:03.72]With some tattooed boy with a guitar [01:07.04]Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round [01:08.22] [01:15.85]This music career isn't real life [01:17.85]It won't see you through to when you're sixty-five [01:19.54]When the tide turns you won't survive [01:23.98]You'll sit on the banks and cry [01:28.10] [01:53.17]Oh girl you've never know war [01:54.58]When they come in the night and knock on the door [01:57.02]You can go from the high life to dirty poor [01:59.59]And lose everything you knew [02:01.15] [02:01.71]But the one thing they can't take away from you [02:03.96]Is your mind and the education you've been through [02:06.21]O you find a man who understands that too [02:07.67] [02:10.38]Make sure that he stays true [02:12.69]Gives respect where its due [02:14.55]Make sure he knows what he's got in you [02:17.92] [02:20.17]Because a woman isn't just for cooking meals [02:21.98]Scrubbing floors making babies [02:24.36]A woman's got ambitions same as he does [02:27.84]Maybe more [02:28.22]When the sirens wailed and the bombs fell [02:31.16]We ran from the schoolyard into hell [02:33.53]And what we could've been time will never tell [02:35.78]'Cause we never had your chances [02:38.60]The advantages that you've been handed [02:41.26] [03:02.46]Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round