Song Of The Stoic-Suzanne Vega

[ti:Song Of The Stoic] [ar:Suzanne Vega] [al:Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Song Of The Stoic - Suzanne Vega (苏珊娜·薇格) [00:09.32]I am a man [00:10.75]I've been working all my days [00:13.41]This is my accounting [00:14.88]Of my means and of my ways [00:17.63]More years are behind me now [00:19.65]Than years that are ahead [00:22.04]Looking back I feel [00:23.35]This is my story to be said [00:26.21]I faced my father down [00:28.01]Inside the hallway of our home [00:30.81]18 years of pain [00:32.38]Upon my body to the bone [00:35.00]Demons lived inside of him [00:37.14]They forced him to the act [00:39.29]The layers of the bruises [00:41.03]To my body was the fact [00:44.09]Ooooh [00:50.17] [01:01.23]I grew and went into the world [01:03.34]I learned to know it's code [01:05.57]Of spoken and unspoken [01:06.45]And I learned to love the road [01:09.77]I shoulder every burden like [01:12.25]A mule with a heavy pack [01:14.29]Every coin I earn is another [01:16.48]Knot within my back [01:18.78]Ecstasy and pleasure come [01:20.70]At much too great a cost [01:22.89]I keep myself upon the earth [01:24.99]But measure what I've lost [01:27.46]Winged things they brush against me [01:29.54]Never mine to hold [01:31.38]I keep my eyes upon the ground [01:33.83]And carry on as old [01:39.30] [02:11.46]I met a woman [02:13.03]She had the gifted touch [02:15.27]Her hands were wise with healing [02:17.00]And with wonder and all such [02:19.65]As the fates would have it [02:21.72]Each to others we are wed [02:24.00]We confine ourselves to friendship [02:25.58]And we stay out of the bed [02:28.45]Now I turn around to face [02:30.53]The specter of my age [02:32.74]My soul it fights my body [02:34.41]Like a bird will fight its cage [02:37.03]I see that last horizon [02:38.72]I hope it brings me peace [02:41.35]I look forward to the day [02:43.16]At last my body knows release [02:46.98] [02:47.67]Ooooh [02:54.60]Ooooh