[00:00.00] 作词 : DiFranco
[00:00.00]he light blue flickering rhythm of the neighbor's big console T.V.
[00:04.38]Is basking on the ceiling of another insomniac spree
[00:08.16]And outside sleep's open window
[00:10.27]Between the drops of rain
[00:12.21]History is writing a recipe book
[00:14.08]For every earthly pain
[00:16.78]Oh to clean up the clutter of echoes
[00:18.85]Coming in and out of focus
[00:20.25]Words spoken
[00:21.17]Like locusts
[00:21.97]Sing and sing
[00:22.91]In my head
[00:24.67]And thing is
[00:26.11]They often seem
[00:27.23]In my memory's long dream
[00:29.10]To be superfluous to the true story of what was
[00:34.81]Cuz
[00:35.58]Real is real regardless
[00:37.23]Of what you try to say
[00:38.21]Or say away
[00:39.62]Real is real relentless
[00:41.09]While words distract and dismay
[00:43.71]Words that change their tune
[00:45.08]Though the story remains the same
[00:47.28]Words that fill me quickly
[00:48.56]And then are slow to drain
[00:50.65]Dialogues that dither down reminiscent
[00:52.72]Of the way it likes to rain
[00:54.96]Every screen
[00:55.76]A smoke screen
[00:57.25]Oh to dream
[00:58.70]Just for a moment
[00:59.80]The picture
[01:01.32]Outside the frame
[01:04.13]Then in a flash
[01:05.05]The light blue horizon
[01:06.29]Spanning a sudden black
[01:07.84]Is sucked into the vanishing point
[01:09.92]And quiet rushes back
[01:11.86]To search for the downbeat
[01:13.18]In a tabla symphony
[01:14.88]To search in the darkness
[01:16.11]For someone who looks like me
[01:18.93](Though I'm not really who I said I was  or who I thought I'd be)
[01:25.05]Just a collection of recollections
[01:26.93]Conversations consisting
[01:28.45]Of the kind of marks we make
[01:30.61]When we're trying to get a pen to work again
[01:33.96]A lifetime of them!
[01:38.10]I say to me
[01:39.46]Now here listening
[01:41.40]I say to the locusts
[01:42.62]That sing and sing to me sitting
[01:44.99]Now here on the front porch swing of my eyes:
[01:48.09]I hereby amend
[01:49.75]Whatever I've ever said
[01:52.45]With this sigh