Summer Painter

Song Summer Painter
Artist Bill Callahan
Album Dream River

Lyrics

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[00:24.18] I painted names boats on for a summer
[00:30.69]
[00:35.00] For luck, you keep the same first letter
[00:37.87]
[00:45.09] You don’t want, you don’t want, you don’t want bad luck at sea
[00:52.22]
[01:06.40] Rich Man’s Folly and Poor Man’s Dream
[01:09.62]
[01:11.24] I painted these while beavers built dams all around me
[01:23.63]
[01:37.24] And come September, come Fall
[01:41.06]
[01:41.61] Holding a job was not believable behavior at all, so I split
[01:48.52]
[01:50.68] beaver like a But is a dam builder, you never really quit
[01:55.53]
[01:57.96] made some I dough and I socked it away
[02:02.15]
[02:02.84] I always said for a rainy day
[02:05.71]
[02:08.22] I truly never knew who I was working for anyway
[02:15.16]
[02:18.48] The rich or the poor?
[02:20.54]
[02:23.39] Who am I working for?
[02:26.35]
[02:28.72] The rich or the poor?
[02:30.96]
[02:39.08] When the hurricane hit
[02:41.20] Some found it suspicious that I’d just since left the frame
[02:45.85]
[02:49.11] Like all that time spent down by the water
[02:52.79] Had somehow given me control over the rain
[02:57.09]
[02:59.75] And some people say wrongly that I've wash things away
[03:06.79]
[03:14.40] I Guess got my rainy day
[03:16.78]
[03:37.31] Like a sorcerer’s cape!
[03:41.42]
[03:44.67] The rain ripped the lips
[03:46.66] Off the mouth of the bay
[03:49.47]
[03:55.33] And rendered the eye
[03:57.63]
[04:00.33] And sleighted the hand
[04:01.82] And tricked the land
[04:03.39] the And air blew away
[04:10.19]
[04:22.47] Then came a quiet
[04:25.10]
[04:29.15] No one should know
[04:32.89]
[04:48.74] Rich Man’s Folly and Poor Man’s Dream
[04:53.74] I’m painting while beavers build dams all around me

Pinyin

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[00:24.18] I painted names boats on for a summer
[00:30.69]
[00:35.00] For luck, you keep the same first letter
[00:37.87]
[00:45.09] You don' t want, you don' t want, you don' t want bad luck at sea
[00:52.22]
[01:06.40] Rich Man' s Folly and Poor Man' s Dream
[01:09.62]
[01:11.24] I painted these while beavers built dams all around me
[01:23.63]
[01:37.24] And come September, come Fall
[01:41.06]
[01:41.61] Holding a job was not believable behavior at all, so I split
[01:48.52]
[01:50.68] beaver like a But is a dam builder, you never really quit
[01:55.53]
[01:57.96] made some I dough and I socked it away
[02:02.15]
[02:02.84] I always said for a rainy day
[02:05.71]
[02:08.22] I truly never knew who I was working for anyway
[02:15.16]
[02:18.48] The rich or the poor?
[02:20.54]
[02:23.39] Who am I working for?
[02:26.35]
[02:28.72] The rich or the poor?
[02:30.96]
[02:39.08] When the hurricane hit
[02:41.20] Some found it suspicious that I' d just since left the frame
[02:45.85]
[02:49.11] Like all that time spent down by the water
[02:52.79] Had somehow given me control over the rain
[02:57.09]
[02:59.75] And some people say wrongly that I' ve wash things away
[03:06.79]
[03:14.40] I Guess got my rainy day
[03:16.78]
[03:37.31] Like a sorcerer' s cape!
[03:41.42]
[03:44.67] The rain ripped the lips
[03:46.66] Off the mouth of the bay
[03:49.47]
[03:55.33] And rendered the eye
[03:57.63]
[04:00.33] And sleighted the hand
[04:01.82] And tricked the land
[04:03.39] the And air blew away
[04:10.19]
[04:22.47] Then came a quiet
[04:25.10]
[04:29.15] No one should know
[04:32.89]
[04:48.74] Rich Man' s Folly and Poor Man' s Dream
[04:53.74] I' m painting while beavers build dams all around me