Impossible Things #2-Looper

[ti:Impossible Things #2] [ar:Looper] [al:Up A Tree] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.24]Artist：looper [00:01.98]Songs Title：impossible things 2 [00:04.44] [00:11.98]So there was this boy and this girl [00:14.23]And they'd never met [00:14.83]They'd never spoken to each other [00:17.58]Or even seen each other [00:19.20]But one day the girl wrote a letter to the boy [00:23.19]The boy was lying in bed one morning when the letter arrived [00:27.06]He heard the postmanand he hoped it might be [00:29.37]One of the songs he'd sent off somewhere [00:31.68]Coming back with some good news [00:33.86]All that turned up though was a letter from his friend from school [00:37.05]Who'd gone off to art-college in Dundee [00:39.23]But the letter had another letter inside it [00:43.16]In another envelope [00:43.79]And that was the letter from the girl [00:46.79] [00:55.83]And they began to write to each other a lot [00:57.38]The boy and the girl [00:58.38]And for a long time one of them would get a letter everyday [01:00.81]They wrote about everything [01:01.97] [01:02.65]About themselves and about the world [01:05.59]And they wrote their own world [01:07.27]And they lit the whole thing up [01:08.45]And after a while they began to meet up in the world [01:31.84] [01:32.39]Where other people live quite nervously [01:34.02]And only about once a year [01:36.70]And they would walk around just watching things [01:38.95]Laughing at stuff that happened [01:41.44]They didn't talk too much [01:42.83]They'd already said most of what they had to say in letters [01:45.87]And they were shy [01:48.06]And at the end of those rare days [01:49.38]They would both go back to their own cities [01:51.49]And write about how good their day had been [01:53.86]And say some of the things they hadn't said at the time [01:56.54]And light the whole thing up [01:57.98] [02:12.71]And then life began to happen to them [02:14.83]Their separate lives in their separate cities [02:17.73]But although they wrote a little less often [02:20.23]They wrote still just as longabout their lives [02:22.91]And how the world was coming into their world [02:24.53]And they kept going till they realized they'd been writing for seven years [02:28.59]And because they had once written themselves a beach [02:32.96]On which to dream themselves together [02:34.89]They decided that to celebrate [02:37.39]They'd have another one of their rare days [02:39.70]And for it they would go to a beach [02:41.88]And in his last letter before they went the boy wrote [02:44.07]It'll be goodand if you want [02:47.25]You can take my bony hand along the shore [02:48.96] [03:06.80]And so they went and they could talk a little bit more by then [03:09.86]They could talk okay [03:10.98]And they spent some money in the arcade at one beach [03:14.79]And at another beach they built a town out of sand and shells [03:18.22]And the girl drew out a puzzle on the wet sand [03:21.65]A puzzle she'd been trying to solve in a dream the night before [03:24.58]And they walked out and stood on the edge of the sea there for a while [03:28.00]And when they turned around to walk back to the road the boy said [03:30.81]Do you want to take my hand [03:33.18]And the girl said [03:34.37]Take it where [03:35.06]And although he afterwards thought he should have said [03:37.86]Everywhere [03:38.55]He only just mumbled [03:40.51] [04:05.23]My hand's very cold [04:05.91]The girl said as he took it [04:08.28]And as they walked up the beach the boy said [04:10.28]We only have to do this until we reach the dry sandthen we can stop [04:13.21]And for a bit they walked in silence [04:16.39] [04:24.76]And although in more than a thousand letters they had talked of the stars [04:27.56]And of riversand of love - and woven a hundred dreams [04:31.31] [04:32.42]All they could think of to talk about was a tree in a garden on the other side of the road [04:38.13]How tall it was and how out of place it looked [04:40.62] [04:51.29]And when they came to the dry sand [04:53.22]They didn't let go of each other's hand [04:54.78] [04:55.34]They just walked on up the beach still talking about the tree [04:58.40]And they stepped over the fence and onto the pavementfalling quiet again [05:02.84] [05:08.53]And as they walked along the pavement they came to a pole [05:11.39]And walked one on either side [05:12.52]And they let go of their hands