Grandmother Song-Vienna Teng

[ti:Grandmother Song] [ar:Vienna Teng] [al:Inland Territory] [00:02.00]Vienna Teng - Grandmother Song [00:08.00] [00:09.47]Oh girl you think you got time [00:11.95]You're gonna get 'round to it way down the line [00:14.49]But one step, two step, you fall behind [00:16.82]So you better have a good plan [00:18.74] [00:19.49]Oh girl you think you got time [00:21.44]You're gonna get 'round to it way down the line [00:23.58]But I'm telling you no matter what you have in mind [00:26.09]You're still gonna need a man [00:27.85] [00:28.67]Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round [00:37.71]No one's gonna take care of you [00:39.71]In that world you've got yourself into [00:41.80]All the good boys, oh baby they're in grad school [00:46.38] [00:47.29]Oh girl your story's all wrong [00:49.48]Your dream'll be a nightmare before too long [00:51.69]Turning thirty and still trying to sing your songs [00:53.96]Come on who do you think you are [00:55.96] [00:56.72]Oh girl it's too heavy a load [00:58.73]Your mama and your baba they are worried souls [01:01.01]How you gonna raise a family when you're on the road [01:03.22]With some tattooed boy with a guitar [01:05.23] [01:06.10]Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round [01:14.77]This music career isn't real life [01:17.05]It won't see you through to when you're sixty-five [01:19.50]When the tide turns you won't survive [01:22.42]You'll sit on the banks and cry [01:32.99] [01:50.58]Oh girl you've never know war [01:54.03]When they come in the night and knock on the door [01:56.12]You can go from the high life to dirty poor [01:58.52]And lose everything you knew [02:00.74] [02:01.48]But the one thing they can't take away from you [02:03.62]Is your mind and the education you've been through [02:05.80]O you find a man who understands that too [02:07.96]Make sure that he stays true [02:11.52]Gives respect where its due [02:13.96]Make sure he knows what he's got in you [02:18.11] [02:18.91]Because a woman isn't just for cooking meals [02:21.29]Scrubbing floors, making babies [02:23.69]A woman's got ambitions same as he does [02:26.17]Maybe more [02:27.77] [02:28.40]When the sirens wailed and the bombs fell [02:30.80]We ran from the schoolyard into hell [02:32.89]And what we could've been time will never tell [02:34.92]Cause we never had your chances [02:37.39]The advantages that you've been handed [02:44.28] [03:10.56]Take it from your grandmother I've been 'round [03:20.63]