The Way I Should-Iris Dement

[ti:The Way I Should (Album Versio] [ar:爱芮丝·戴蒙] [al:The Way I Should] [by:] [offset:0] [00:21.82]A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night [00:28.12] [00:32.44]An Autumn leaf was scraping against my window [00:36.83]Like it was trying hard to get inside [00:39.33] [00:42.58]And then a ghost that I had met before he kept me up 'til dawn [00:47.52] [00:48.64]And everything I thought was right was suddenly all wrong [00:52.46] [00:53.02]He said "Your score is looking pretty bad" [00:55.96]And then he asked me what it was that I had to show [00:59.52] [01:03.52]So I went running down a list of things [01:06.27]Some were real but on some of them I lied [01:10.46] [01:14.33]'Cause I felt I had to justify each breath that I'd been breathing in this life [01:19.90] [01:20.46]Then I realized I was playing into someone else's rules [01:28.71]Trying to keep my score up in a game I did not choose [01:35.46]Then I looked that ghost straight in the eye [01:38.33] [01:41.33]And said "You'd better not be coming back by again" [01:43.33]And it's true that I don't work near as hard [01:48.46] [01:50.08]As you tell me that I'm supposed to [01:52.77]I don't run as fast as I could [01:56.71]But I live just the way I want to [02:01.21]And that's the way I should [02:02.58]October's leaves were dancing 'round [02:29.83]Like angels dressed in robes of Red and Gold [02:33.21] [02:38.96]But November's come and gone now [02:43.96]And they're lying in the gutter out along the road [02:46.24] [02:50.24]They're gonna make their way out to the ditch or someday to the sea [02:54.87]They'll get to where they're going without the help of you or me [02:59.68]And if each life is just a grain of sand [03:03.12]I'm telling you man this grain of sand is mine [03:07.05] [03:11.06]And it's true that I don't work near as hard [03:17.23]As you tell me that I'm supposed to [03:21.04]I don't run as fast as I could [03:23.86]But I live just the way I want to [03:25.98]And that's the way I should [03:28.04] [03:31.23]But I live just the way I want to [03:34.67] [03:35.92]And that's the way I should