《To A Sleeping Beauty》歌词

[00:00:00] Dear daughter

[00:00:02] I tiptoed in your room tonight

[00:00:16] An' I looked down at you smilin' in your sleep

[00:00:20] You were so lovely

[00:00:21] My heart nearly broke

[00:00:24] An' I thought how very much like sleeping beauty a little girl is

[00:00:30] When I tuck you in at night

[00:00:33] I never know how old you'll be when you wake

[00:00:36] One evenin' you crawl on your dad's lap

[00:00:39] An' throw your arms around his neck

[00:00:43] The next mornin' you might be much too grown up

[00:00:47] For that sort of thing

[00:00:48] You're so quickly approachin' the awkward age

[00:00:54] Too young to drive the car an' yet too old to be carried

[00:00:58] Into the house

[00:00:59] Half asleep on daddy's shoulder

[00:01:03] I have a secret that I've never told you

[00:01:05] Sleeping beauty

[00:01:07] You're goin' on a very excitin' trip

[00:01:11] You'll travel from yesterday all the way to tomorrow

[00:01:17] It's a rapid journey an' you'll travel light

[00:01:21] Leavin' behind your measles

[00:01:24] Mumps

[00:01:25] Freckles

[00:01:25] Bumps

[00:01:26] Bubblegum an' me

[00:01:32] I promise not to feel too hurt when you discover

[00:01:36] That the world is more important than your daddy's lap

[00:01:44] Yesterday

[00:01:44] You were blue jeaned an' pig tailed

[00:01:47] The neighborhood's best tree climber

[00:01:51] Tomorrow

[00:01:51] You'll be blue organdie an' pony tailed

[00:01:54] An' you'll view the world from a loftier perch

[00:01:58] A pair of high heel shoes

[00:02:02] Yesterday

[00:02:03] You could mend a doll's broken leg with a hug

[00:02:06] Tomorrow

[00:02:08] You'll be able to break a young man's heart with a kiss

[00:02:11] Yesterday

[00:02:12] You could get lost one aisle

[00:02:16] Away from me in a supermarket

[00:02:19] Now

[00:02:20] I have to worry about losin' you

[00:02:22] Down another aisle to some strange young man

[00:02:28] You see just at the point where your growin' pains stop

[00:02:34] Mine begin

[00:02:36] Yesterday

[00:02:37] You were kind of a pain in the neck

[00:02:38] When you were around

[00:02:42] Tomorrow

[00:02:42] You'll be an ache in my heart when you're not

[00:02:47] Tomorrow

[00:02:48] You'll lay aside your jump rope

[00:02:51] An' tie up the telephone lines

[00:02:52] An' that little boy that used to push you in the mud

[00:02:56] Well

[00:02:56] He'll fight to set out a dance with you

[00:03:01] The clock upstairs is countin' the minutes for you

[00:03:04] An' the sky upstairs is savin' its brightest stars

[00:03:09] An' the sun is waitin' with its shiniest day

[00:03:12] Oh

[00:03:13] I

[00:03:14] I can't expect you to live in a doll house forever

[00:03:19] Sooner or later

[00:03:20] The butterfly sheds its cocoon

[00:03:23] An' the smallest bird must try its wings

[00:03:29] But when you grow up an' out of my arms

[00:03:34] When you finally get too big for my shirts

[00:03:37] I'll still recall how you used to scatter dust an' dolls

[00:03:42] An' partially through every room in the house

[00:03:46] But you spread sunshine too

[00:03:51] The dust is settled

[00:03:54] Your mom picked up the dolls

[00:03:57] But the sunshine will always fill the corners of our hearts

[00:04:08] So

[00:04:09] Here I am talkin' in your sleep

[00:04:16] Because well

[00:04:18] If you saw this look on my face

[00:04:20] You'd laugh

[00:04:24] An' if I spoke with this lump in my throat

[00:04:28] I'd cry

[00:04:30] Yeah

[00:04:31] Honey

[00:04:32] When I looked at you tonight

[00:04:36] You were a sleeping beauty

[00:04:38] So I tiptoed over an' I kissed you

[00:04:44] You didn't wake up I knew you wouldn't

[00:04:49] According to the legend

[00:04:51] Only the handsome young prince can open your eyes

[00:04:56] An' I'm just the father of the future bride

[00:05:03] So you sleep on pretty thing

[00:05:05] Tomorrow

[00:05:08] You'll wake an' you'll be a young lady

[00:05:14] An' you won't even realize

[00:05:15] That you've changed courses in the middle of a dream

[00:05:20] But you might notice this little change in me

[00:05:25] I look a little different somehow

[00:05:30] A little sadder

[00:05:33] A little wiser but a whole lot richer

[00:05:37] Tonight

[00:05:41] I kissed a princess an' I feel like a king