《Mortal City》歌词

[00:00:00] She never should have rented

[00:00:02] This apartment in the mortal city

[00:00:06] The cold comes though

[00:00:07] Evey crack she puts her hand up to

[00:00:10] The radiator's broken

[00:00:13] So she has to use electric heat

[00:00:16] And tonight was the first date with

[00:00:18] The brother of the guy she worked next to

[00:00:21] He lived a couple streets away

[00:00:23] He listened he had things to say

[00:00:26] She asked him up for dinner sometime

[00:00:29] Sometime was tonight

[00:00:36] The radio gave updates on the ice storm

[00:00:39] While she made the dinner

[00:00:41] They said from all the talk

[00:00:44] You shouldn't drive or even walk

[00:00:46] And this just in we're asking everyone

[00:00:51] To turn off their power

[00:00:53] They need it at the hostpital

[00:01:01] She ran around pulling plugs

[00:01:03] Then she called him up

[00:01:06] Maybe now they shouldn't meet

[00:01:08] He said that he would brave the streets

[00:01:11] She met him at the door

[00:01:12] With a blanket and a candle

[00:01:15] Saying I heard it on the radio

[00:01:18] I had to turn my power off

[00:01:25] He said you're not the only one

[00:01:28] The streets were dark tonight

[00:01:30] It was like another century

[00:01:32] With dim lamps and candles lighting up

[00:01:35] The icy trees and the clouds and a covered moon

[00:01:42] She said what kind of people make a city

[00:01:46] Where you can't see the sky

[00:01:47] And you can't feel the ground

[00:01:51] I tell you something

[00:01:52] I have this feeling that this city's dying

[00:01:56] He said it's not dying

[00:01:57] It's the people who are dying

[00:02:00] She said yes yes I think

[00:02:03] The people are dying

[00:02:04] And nobody cares

[00:02:11] We had all this technology

[00:02:13] Our dreams were bold and vague

[00:02:15] And then one city got bad planners

[00:02:21] One city got the plague

[00:02:34] He asked why did you move here

[00:02:38] She said for the job

[00:02:40] For the job

[00:02:41] And I've been so lonely here so lonely

[00:02:47] There's no one I can talk to

[00:02:49] You know I don't even know your brother

[00:02:59] He smiled and said

[00:03:01] Sometimes at night I walk out by the river

[00:03:04] The city's one big town

[00:03:06] The water turns it upside down

[00:03:09] People found

[00:03:10] This city because they love other people

[00:03:14] They want their secretaries

[00:03:16] They want their power lunches

[00:03:26] And think about tonight

[00:03:28] I heard the same newscast you did

[00:03:31] I unplugged everything

[00:03:33] I looked out the window

[00:03:35] And I think the city heard

[00:03:38] I watched as one by one the lights went off

[00:03:42] So they could give their power to the hospital

[00:03:53] They ate in silence while she thought this over

[00:03:58] They sat together in a dark room in the mortal city

[00:04:02] Shifting in their blankets so

[00:04:04] They wouldn't get spaghetti on them

[00:04:13] Then came the awkward moment after dinner

[00:04:16] What to do

[00:04:18] The ice was still falling the streets were still dangerous

[00:04:22] The cabs were not running

[00:04:25] And this neighborhood was not the greatest

[00:04:28] They both looked

[00:04:29] At the space where a couch would've been

[00:04:33] She felt her stomach sink

[00:04:35] She felt like she could hardly think

[00:04:42] She said I never should have rented

[00:04:44] This apartment in the mortal city

[00:04:48] The cold comes through eve crack I put my hand up to

[00:04:53] The radiator doesn't work I have to use electric heat

[00:04:59] That settled it they would both sleep in her bed

[00:05:02] It was a matter of survival

[00:05:08] She brought out teeshirts sweatshirts

[00:05:10] Sweatpants socks hats

[00:05:15] If there was ever any thought of

[00:05:18] What would happen in that bed tonight

[00:05:21] There wa no question now

[00:05:24] They could barely move

[00:05:25] They were wrapped up like ornaments waiting

[00:05:28] For another season

[00:05:36] They lay in bed they listened to the pelting ice

[00:05:42] He said my brother's not a bad guy he's just quiet

[00:05:47] I wished you liked this city

[00:05:50] She said maybe I do

[00:05:56] I think I have a special kind of hearing tonight

[00:06:02] I hear the neighbors upstairs

[00:06:04] I hear my heart beating

[00:06:07] I hear one thousand hearts beating at the hospital

[00:06:22] And one thousand hearts by their bedsides waiting

[00:06:35] Saying that's my love in the white gown

[00:06:51] We are not lost in the mortal city

[00:06:56] We are not lost in the mortal city

[00:07:03] Mortal City - Dar Williams