[00:00.00] 作曲 : Suzanne Vega
[00:01.00] 作词 : Vega
[00:31.24]the reproach in your daughter's most beautiful face
[00:35.14]made me wonder just how she could know
[00:41.06]of that something that happened between you and me
[00:45.31]so much more than a long time ago
[00:48.08]
[00:49.12]her mother, I can see, lives within her still
[00:54.11]cause she looked at me with her eyes
[01:00.50]though I had only just met her right then
[01:04.95]I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise
[01:08.26]
[01:11.47]did i break the thread, or did you break the thread?
[01:24.13]well at this point we could ask who cares
[01:29.15]as for the promises broken and frayed
[01:32.86]it's 19 years late for repairs
[01:35.75]
[01:37.99]the grey pewter vase held the deep red rose,
[01:42.48]
[01:43.86]one piece of coral shone white,
[01:48.27]by the brass candlestick near your red velvet coat,
[01:53.20]
[01:54.24]is everything I can recall of one night
[01:57.68]
[02:26.36]will you please tell me why I remember these things
[02:31.48]after all of this time, I don't know
[02:34.66]
[02:36.43]i must have left all those feelings inside
[02:40.80]cause that year I had no courage to show
[02:44.51]
[02:46.44]was i the name you could never pronounce?
[02:48.40]or did i even figure at all?
[02:55.67]all of this happened before she was born
[02:59.99]did i shadow her young pencil marks on the wall
[03:05.58]still i am sure i was only but one
[03:09.23]of a number who darkened that door
[03:12.64]
[03:14.25]of your home and your hearth and your family and wife
[03:18.78]who'd been darkened so often before
[03:22.84]
[03:24.13]oh, the red leaf looks to the hard gray stone
[03:29.10]to each other, they know what they mean
[03:34.00]somewhere, their future is still yet to come
[03:36.83]in ways that are yet as of now unforeseen