Melancholy Child-Pam Tillis

[ti:Melancholy Child] [ar:Pam Tillis] [al:Put Yourself In My Place] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Melancholy Child - Pam Tillis (帕姆·泰丽斯) [00:16.82]A baby with a baby [00:18.45]Just barely seventeen [00:19.88] [00:20.43]My mother mourned her innocence [00:22.07]As she bounced on her knee [00:23.72] [00:24.33]A daddy on the road [00:25.83]Added to the tears and trials [00:29.21]Like silver rain they fell upon this melancholy child [00:33.65] [00:37.99]The sounds of my childhood still linger in my song [00:41.67]My mother's lullaby [00:42.84]That train that rain behind our home [00:45.82]A whippoorwill on a windowsill [00:47.50]It should have made me smile [00:49.95] [00:50.51]But everything sounds lonely to a melancholy child [00:54.35] [00:59.24]Now a restless blood runs in our family [01:02.84] [01:03.49]I thought I could outrun the emptiness inside of me [01:08.31] [01:09.20]So I went a little crazy and I went a little wild [01:13.28]Trying to outdistance my own melancholy child [01:17.28] [01:32.88]I met a kind and gentle man [01:34.67]Who thinks the world of me [01:36.63]When he looks my way [01:38.08]It's a woman that he sees [01:40.46]But when I can't explain to him [01:42.48]The tears that fill my eyes [01:45.35]He takes me in his arms [01:46.88]And rocks his melancholy child [01:49.53]You take a black Irish temper [01:51.96]And some solemn Cherokee [01:54.02]A Southern sense of humor [01:55.68]And you got someone like me [01:58.79] [02:00.22]There are thorns on every rose [02:01.72]To this I'm reconciled [02:04.01]They're just a little sharper to a melancholy child [02:08.26] [02:09.48]And in my own babe's eyes [02:12.93] [02:13.51]I see the signs of a melancholy child [02:24.66] [02:29.26]Heaven help us all another melancholy child