Janis Ian《Searching for America》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:02.34]Where have you been that made you weep [00:03.06]And left these stains upon your cheek [00:04.14]What did you see while you were gone [00:30.06]That haunts your eyes this sunny dawn [00:30.81]They herded us like so much meat [00:36.93]Up from the sewers to the street [00:42.93]Where concrete canyons stretched their walls [00:48.72]So high it made us want to crawl [00:55.02]Past proverbs writ on subway cars [00:59.73]And in between the window bars [01:04.11]We walked until the pavement bled [01:09.03]And not a curse was left unsaid [01:11.31]Into a place that knows no spring [01:13.59]Where only steel and silver sing [01:14.76]They made us dance until we dropped [01:15.87]And the music of the jackhammers stopped [01:18.00]I caught a cinder in my eye [01:19.98]Searching for a patch of sky [01:23.37]But the shadows drizzled down like in Pompeii [01:24.75]That's how I spent my yesterday [01:25.50]Searching for America [01:28.80]In the rivets and the rust [01:29.37]Searching for America [01:31.68]Finding only dust [01:34.26]What did you see that made you cry [01:48.09]And left these trackmarks on your eye [01:48.66]What did you find while you were there [01:49.95]That sucks the light out of the morning air [01:50.79]They gave us each a cropper's shack [01:56.79]And land so hard it broke our back [02:02.67]Then fed us 'til our bellies burst [02:08.82]On promises that died at birth [02:15.09]So I lay the baby out each dawn [02:21.54]In between the tender corn [02:27.42]With sunrise for her bonnet [02:33.15]And flies her only blanket [02:40.14]We harvested until we bled [02:42.87]'Til every single root ran red [02:45.42]And when the work was finally done [02:48.81]They gave our names to immigration [02:56.37]I did not know how bad it hurt [02:57.12]Until I lay there eating dirt [02:58.80]And the cold seeped in between my bones [03:02.10]That's where I was when I left home [03:02.88]Searching for America [03:03.81]All her dreams and hopes [03:08.13]Searching for America [03:14.43]Finding only ghosts [03:42.78]Who are these people you have seen [03:48.84]To dream this dark and distant dream [03:54.93]To tell the stories you have told [04:01.08]To leave these bruises on your soul [04:07.47]They are the flesh they are the bone [04:13.59]They are the very cornerstone [04:19.76]They leave their mansions and their shacks [04:26.16]To hide here in between the cracks [04:29.31]Their hope is tattooed on my lips [04:30.06]Bleeding from my fingertips [04:30.87]They are crawling toward the promised land [04:31.80]Hand over hand [04:32.19]To walk until they run no more [04:35.70]And wash up on some distant shore [04:38.91]Where truth is not the enemy [04:42.66]And whatever does not kill us sets us free [04:51.54]Somewhere out there [04:56.31]Are millions just like me [05:04.11]Homesick for Eden [05:08.37]Heartsick at the memory [05:14.37]Searching for America [05:17.64]In every stick and stone [05:26.52]Searching for America [05:33.63]Going home [05:38.70]Searching for America [05:45.87]Going home