| [00:13.23] |
If I mistook |
| [00:15.26] |
The sun for a mango |
| [00:17.38] |
I'd fly up there and reach for it too |
| [00:22.24] |
It's the story of something older |
| [00:26.50] |
And bigger than me and you |
| [00:31.32] |
And you told it |
| [00:33.33] |
In a letter |
| [00:35.65] |
In the form of an evergreen cassette |
| [00:40.10] |
And I played it |
| [00:42.23] |
In the morning |
| [00:44.89] |
Till after the sun would set |
| [00:47.43] |
.. |
| [00:49.12] |
See, mother I believe |
| [00:52.75] |
That half of everything I hear is true |
| [00:57.23] |
Between you and me |
| [01:00.74] |
I believe the anecdotes too |
| [01:03.79] |
.. |
| [01:06.22] |
In the verandah |
| [01:09.23] |
In the midnight heat |
| [01:11.90] |
Cousins and I would wait for the rains |
| [01:15.95] |
Singing songs about America |
| [01:20.81] |
And then the first drops came |
| [01:23.70] |
.. |
| [01:24.87] |
So don't worry |
| [01:27.00] |
Even though you were |
| [01:29.75] |
Oceans and continents away |
| [01:33.83] |
I heard evergreen hits, lullabies |
| [01:38.69] |
And everything you had to say |
| [01:41.53] |
.. |
| [01:43.14] |
See, mother I believe |
| [01:46.57] |
That half of everything I hear is true |
| [01:50.99] |
Between you and me |
| [01:54.49] |
I believe the anecdotes too |
| [02:00.17] |
If they get you through |
| [02:03.18] |
.. |
| [02:06.90] |
If time, time could be bent with the drop of a tear |
| [02:12.59] |
You'd see it rained in our house for a year |
| [02:16.96] |
This is the sound of the beating you'd hear |
| [02:23.73] |
All the tapes we've taped over all of our hopes and our fears |
| [02:30.31] |
The open verandah's been flooding for years |
| [02:34.86] |
I always hope that I'd see you here |
| [02:42.66] |
Ahah.. |
| [02:46.17] |
Ahahah.. |
| [02:50.77] |
Ahah.. |
| [02:54.08] |
Ahahah.. |
| [03:00.79] |
But time, time can't be bent with the drop of a tear |
| [03:06.07] |
And though you say you missed out all of those years |
| [03:10.58] |
Your voice on the tapes always kept us near |
| [03:14.79] |
.. |
| [03:18.59] |
See, mother I believe |
| [03:21.91] |
That half of everything I hear is true |
| [03:26.40] |
Between you and me |
| [03:29.88] |
I believe in everything you do |
