Snow Patrol《Fancy》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:01.95]I remember it all very well lookin' back [00:04.01]It was the summer I turned eighteen [00:06.46]We lived in a one room  rundown shack [00:09.13]On the outskirts of New Orleans [00:11.49]We didn't have money for food or rent [00:13.92]To say the least we were hard pressed [00:16.27]Then Mama spent every last penny we had [00:18.75]To buy me a dancin' dress [00:21.02]Mama washed and combed and curled my hair [00:23.65]And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin [00:27.72]Dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip [00:31.94]It was red velvet trim and it fit me good [00:35.20]Standin' back from the lookin' glass [00:37.18]There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood [00:40.08]She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [00:45.31]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [01:01.39]Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck [01:04.46]And she kissed my cheek [01:05.77]Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes [01:08.94]When she started to speak [01:10.65]She looked at a pitiful shack [01:12.22]And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath [01:15.17]She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick [01:17.60]And the baby's gonna starve to death [01:19.90]She handed me a heart shaped locket that said [01:21.99]"To thine own self be true" [01:24.26]And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across [01:26.44]The toe of my high heel shoe [01:29.48]It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' [01:31.33]Askin' Mama what do I do [01:33.48]She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy [01:35.83]And they'll be nice to you [01:38.40]She said here's your chance Fancy don't let me down [01:42.48]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [01:47.64]Lord forgive me for what I do  but if you want out [01:51.11]Well it's up to you [01:52.18]Now don't let me down you better start movin' uptown [01:59.35]Well  that was the last time I saw my Ma [02:01.26]The night I left that rickety shack [02:03.47]The welfare people came and took the baby [02:05.88]Mama died and I ain't been back [02:08.03]But the wheels of fate had started to turn [02:10.42]And for me there was no way out [02:12.68]And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly [02:14.72]What my Mama's been talkin' about [02:17.38]I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow [02:22.07]That I's gonna be a lady someday [02:24.11]Though I don't know when or how [02:26.62]I couldn't see spending the rest of my life [02:28.89]With my head hung down in shame you know [02:31.98]I might have been born just plain white trash [02:33.77]But Fancy was my name [02:35.79]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [02:40.82]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [02:47.55]It wasn't very long after a benevolent man [02:49.39]Took me off the street [02:51.90]And one week later I was pourin' his tea [02:54.04]In a five room hotel suite [02:56.36]I charmed a king  a congressman [02:58.02]And an occasional aristocrat [03:00.78]Then I got me a Georgia mansion [03:02.78]In an elegant New York townhouse flat [03:05.32]And I ain't done bad [03:15.08]Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrite [03:16.72]That would call me bad [03:19.30]And criticize Mama for turning me out [03:21.36]No matter how little we had [03:23.84]But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin' [03:26.07]For nigh on fifteen years [03:28.28]I can still hear the desperation in my poor [03:30.78]Mama's voice ringin' in my ear [03:32.80]She said  here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [03:37.93]Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down [03:42.09]Lord  forgive me for what I do [03:43.90]But if you want out well it's up to you [03:46.47]Now don't let me down [03:47.69]Your Mama's gonna help you uptown [03:53.31]I guess she did