《Meadowlark》歌词

[00:00:00] Meadowlark - Patti LuPone

[00:00:11] When I was a girl I had a favorite story

[00:00:18] Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind

[00:00:20] Her voice could match the angels in its glory

[00:00:22] But she was blind the lark was blind

[00:00:27] An old king came and took her to his palace

[00:00:31] Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid

[00:00:34] And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed

[00:00:40] Sing for me my meadowlark

[00:00:41] Sing for me of the silver morning

[00:00:44] Set me free my meadowlark

[00:00:46] And I'll buy you a priceless jewel

[00:00:50] And cloth of brocade and cruel

[00:00:54] And I'll love you for life if you will, sing for me

[00:01:05] Then one day as the lark sang by the water

[00:01:14] The god of the sun heard her in his flight

[00:01:21] And her singing moved him so, he came and brought her

[00:01:25] The gift of sight he gave her sight

[00:01:28] And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendor

[00:01:30] Of this beautiful young god so proud and strong

[00:01:34] And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender

[00:01:38] Come along fly with me, my meadowlark

[00:01:50] Fly with me on the silver morning

[00:01:52] Past the sea where the dolphins bark

[00:01:54] We will dance on the coral beaches

[00:02:01] Make a feast of the plums and peaches

[00:02:15] Just as far as your vision reaches, fly with me

[00:02:24] But the meadowlark said no for the old king loved her so

[00:02:27] She couldn't bear to wound his pride

[00:02:28] So the sun god flew away and when the king came down that day

[00:02:36] He found his meadowlark had died every time I heard that part I cried

[00:02:43] And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy

[00:02:54] Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb

[00:03:05] A beautiful young man appears before me

[00:03:13] Singing, "Come oh won't you come?"

[00:03:19] And what can I do if finally for the first time

[00:03:24] The one I'm burning for returns the glow

[00:03:27] If love has come at last it's picked the worst time

[00:03:32] Still I know I've got to go

[00:03:34] Fly away, meadowlark

[00:03:35] Fly away in the silver morning

[00:03:37] If I stay, I'll grow to curse the dark

[00:03:41] So it's off where the days won't bind me

[00:03:58] I know I leave wounds behind me

[00:04:14] But I won't let tomorrow find me back this way

[00:04:18] Before my past once again can blind me fly away

[00:04:28] And we won't wait to say goodbye

[00:04:30] My beautiful young man and I