| Song | The Lighthouse's Tale |
| Artist | Nickel Creek |
| Album | A BlueGrass Tale:Pickin' on Nickel Creek |
| 作词 : McKenzie, Thile | |
| I am a lighthouse | |
| Worn by the weather and the waves | |
| I keep my lamp lit | |
| To warn the sailors on their way | |
| I'll tell a story | |
| Paint you a picture from my past | |
| I was so happy | |
| But joy in this life seldom lasts | |
| I had a keeper | |
| He helped me warn the ships at sea | |
| We had grown closer | |
| 'Til his joy meant everything to me | |
| He was to marry | |
| A girl who shone with beauty and light | |
| They loved each other | |
| And with me watched the sunsets into nights | |
| And the waves crash around me, | |
| The sand slips out to sea, | |
| And the winds that blow remind me | |
| Of what has been, and what can never be | |
| She'd had to leave us | |
| My keeper, he prayed for a safe return | |
| But when the night came | |
| The weather to a raging storm had turned | |
| He watched her ship fight | |
| But in vain against the wild and terrible wind | |
| In me so helpless | |
| As dashed against the rocks she met her end | |
| And the waves crash around me, | |
| The sand slips out to sea, | |
| And the winds that blow remind me | |
| Of what has been, and what can never be | |
| Then on the next day | |
| My keeper found her washed up on the shore | |
| He kissed her cold face | |
| And that they'd be together soon he swore I saw him crying | |
| Watched as he buried in the sand | |
| Then he climbed my tower | |
| And off the edge of me he ran | |
| And the waves crash around me, | |
| The sand slips out to sea, | |
| And the winds that blow remind me | |
| Of what has been, and what can never be | |
| I am a lighthouse | |
| Worn by the weather and the waves | |
| And though I'm empty | |
| I still warn the sailors on their way |
| zuò cí : McKenzie, Thile | |
| I am a lighthouse | |
| Worn by the weather and the waves | |
| I keep my lamp lit | |
| To warn the sailors on their way | |
| I' ll tell a story | |
| Paint you a picture from my past | |
| I was so happy | |
| But joy in this life seldom lasts | |
| I had a keeper | |
| He helped me warn the ships at sea | |
| We had grown closer | |
| ' Til his joy meant everything to me | |
| He was to marry | |
| A girl who shone with beauty and light | |
| They loved each other | |
| And with me watched the sunsets into nights | |
| And the waves crash around me, | |
| The sand slips out to sea, | |
| And the winds that blow remind me | |
| Of what has been, and what can never be | |
| She' d had to leave us | |
| My keeper, he prayed for a safe return | |
| But when the night came | |
| The weather to a raging storm had turned | |
| He watched her ship fight | |
| But in vain against the wild and terrible wind | |
| In me so helpless | |
| As dashed against the rocks she met her end | |
| And the waves crash around me, | |
| The sand slips out to sea, | |
| And the winds that blow remind me | |
| Of what has been, and what can never be | |
| Then on the next day | |
| My keeper found her washed up on the shore | |
| He kissed her cold face | |
| And that they' d be together soon he swore I saw him crying | |
| Watched as he buried in the sand | |
| Then he climbed my tower | |
| And off the edge of me he ran | |
| And the waves crash around me, | |
| The sand slips out to sea, | |
| And the winds that blow remind me | |
| Of what has been, and what can never be | |
| I am a lighthouse | |
| Worn by the weather and the waves | |
| And though I' m empty | |
| I still warn the sailors on their way |