《Burning Herself(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:03] Burning Herself (LP Version) - Harry Chapin

[00:00:13] She was crazy

[00:00:14] She was beautiful

[00:00:16] I guess she had to be

[00:00:20] And I was angry

[00:00:23] You were blind

[00:00:24] Because I could not see

[00:00:28] Except for what her cigarettes

[00:00:31] Had done to her skin

[00:00:34] I should have known the outside world

[00:00:38] Would reveal what was within

[00:00:43] But she was burning herself

[00:00:45] And her hair was filled with ashes

[00:00:49] She was burning herself

[00:00:50] And her life became a flame

[00:00:54] She was burning herself

[00:00:56] And the flame became her passion

[00:00:59] She was burning herself

[00:01:01] And her passion her passion was her pain

[00:01:15] She was trusting

[00:01:17] You could have saved her too

[00:01:19] All hope had passed for her

[00:01:22] And I was lusting

[00:01:24] And she gave to you

[00:01:26] That's all I asked for her

[00:01:29] The marks upon her body

[00:01:32] And the marks upon her mind

[00:01:36] I knew I could have erased them

[00:01:39] If I'd only taken the time

[00:01:45] But she was burning herself

[00:01:47] And her hair was filled with ashes

[00:01:51] She was burning herself

[00:01:52] And her life became a flame

[00:01:56] She was burning herself

[00:01:58] And the flame became her passion

[00:02:01] She was burning herself

[00:02:03] And her passion her passion was her pain

[00:02:18] I never saw her do it

[00:02:21] I only saw the scars

[00:02:24] I never could imagine

[00:02:27] What could make her go that far

[00:02:32] I wondered was she driven

[00:02:35] By a desperate need to feel

[00:02:39] To find out she was really living

[00:02:42] To discover that her life was real

[00:02:46] Or was it that the pain

[00:02:49] Slicing through her like a knife

[00:02:52] Was easier to take

[00:02:55] Than the emptiness of life

[00:03:00] Had a strange sense of drama

[00:03:03] Caught her inside a role

[00:03:06] Or was she trying to cauterize

[00:03:10] The changes on her sole

[00:03:13] I don't know I don't know

[00:03:15] I don't know her passion was her pain