Polaroids-Shawn Colvin

[ti:Polaroids (Album Version)] [ar:Shawn Colvin] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Polaroids - Shawn Colvin (肖恩·科尔) [00:12.22]Please no more therapy [00:14.99]Mother take care of me [00:17.72]Piece me together with a [00:20.54]Needle and thread [00:22.44] [00:23.38]Wrap me in eiderdown [00:26.14]Lace from your wedding gown [00:28.94]Fold me and lay me down [00:31.81]On your bed [00:33.16] [00:34.47]Or liken me to a shoe [00:37.45]Blackened and spit-shined through [00:40.20]Kicking back home to you [00:43.01]Smiling back home [00:44.96] [00:45.84]Singing back home to you [00:48.65]Laughing back home to you [00:51.38]Dragging back home to you [00:54.96] [00:57.10]I was so wary then [00:59.87]The ugly american [01:02.07] [01:02.65]Thinner than oxygen [01:05.54]Tough as a whore [01:07.30] [01:08.27]I said you can lie to me [01:11.04]I own what's inside of me [01:13.98]And nothing surprises me anymore [01:17.66] [01:19.38]But forests in germany [01:21.80] [01:22.35]Kids in the tuileries [01:25.19]Broken-down fortresses [01:27.96]In old italy [01:29.83] [01:30.58]And claiming his victory [01:33.55]Shrouded in mystery [01:36.13]He went running away with me [01:38.40] [01:42.21]Back in our home new york [01:44.81]Walking these streets forlorn [01:47.56]We all in our uniforms [01:50.51]Black and black [01:52.06] [01:53.26]Doing that slouch and jive [01:56.05]The artist must survive [01:58.84]We've got all we need we cried [02:01.62]And we don't look back [02:02.93] [02:04.50]Thinking we had it made [02:07.31]Poised for the hit parade [02:10.24]Knee deep in accolades [02:12.73]The conceptual pair [02:14.67] [02:15.31]But ever the malcontent [02:18.45]He left without incident [02:21.28]Vanished into thin air [02:24.84] [03:12.26]Now I am always amazed [03:14.68]Words can fill up a page [03:17.49]Pages fill up the days [03:20.38]Between him and me [03:21.94] [03:22.72]But the vows that we never keep [03:25.85]From bedrooms to business-speak [03:28.77]Make me remember how cheap [03:31.88]Words can be [03:33.29] [03:34.30]And the letters I wrote you of [03:37.13]Were those of the desperate stuff [03:40.05]Like begging for love in a suicide threat [03:44.53] [03:45.30]But I am too young to die [03:48.35]Too old for a lullaby [03:50.68] [03:51.19]Too tired for life on the ledge [03:54.96] [03:56.49]But I had a dream last night [03:59.57]Of lovers who walked the plank [04:02.48]Out on the edge of time [04:05.44]Amidst ridicule [04:07.64] [04:08.22]They laughed as they rocked and reeled [04:11.08]Over the mining fields [04:13.91]Coming to rest on this ship of fools [04:17.88] [04:19.42]But he just took polaroids [04:21.90] [04:22.56]Of her smile in the light [04:25.39]Of the dawn of the menacing sky [04:29.82] [04:30.50]And before they went overbaord [04:33.40]She turned and held up a card [04:36.23]And it said valentine