《The History Of Excuses》歌词

[00:00:15] I got a book of photographs from old sing sing

[00:00:19] They used to say upstate

[00:00:20] And that's what they'd mean

[00:00:22] It's such a prettier name for such an awful place

[00:00:25] And every page you're looking at another blank face

[00:00:28] And you know

[00:00:29] You have to find a way to pass time

[00:00:32] And that's what I've been doing for a while now

[00:00:34] Baby

[00:00:35] I've been marking each day with the light on the wall

[00:00:38] And waiting by the telephone to take that call

[00:00:41] And you try to change my mind

[00:00:44] About to choose this

[00:00:48] 'Cause you know too well the history of excuses

[00:00:54] Looking the clean to that liquor machine

[00:00:57] That can jingle their coffers all gold bus tweed

[00:01:01] And jingle the heavens and driving the bus

[00:01:04] 'Cause there's hatches in the back and nothing but this whole hook

[00:01:07] And you know

[00:01:08] I wish that I could change it with a vote

[00:01:10] But I never found myself on the right side of the polls

[00:01:13] You got a dream

[00:01:14] Well

[00:01:15] I'm out in the open

[00:01:17] And there's mountains and trees and the smell of the ocean

[00:01:20] I try to change my mind

[00:01:22] About to choose this

[00:01:26] 'Cause you know too well the history of excuses

[00:01:52] I'm down riding on a hudson river train

[00:01:55] I'm at the window as we're passing by the rockefeller estate

[00:01:59] I used to buy up all the houses just to clear 'em away

[00:02:01] 'Cause they cluttered the view of the far palisades

[00:02:05] Now I came by one house

[00:02:07] Let alone a valley full

[00:02:08] And my only view is of some blank wall

[00:02:12] It gets tired of being confined

[00:02:18] And waiting around in holes

[00:02:25] I got you for tied

[00:02:30] And I try to change my mind

[00:02:33] About to choose this

[00:02:36] 'Cause you know too well the history of excuses