Somebody's Mother

歌词
Third of November“
写于11月3日”
Thanks for your letter
谢谢你的来信
Your picture book's stretched out the length of four cars
你的画册冗长得和四部车一样长
Your story's not easy
故事不艰辛
Then what is easy
但什么是容易的
With parents like yours and my list like ours
有你这样的父母和我这样的人
You got me thinking
你让我思考着
What really happened
到底发生了什么
To know I've been happy to let the dogs lie
让我为了避免新的冲突而高兴
Maybe I need to find
也许我需要找到
Someone to bleed to
一个能引导我的人
Maybe that's you and for you maybe I
也许是你也许是我
What do I know
我又知道什么呢
What do I know about her
我对她又有多了解呢
I've called her an empress
我称她为皇后
I've called her a tempest
我又称她暴风雨
A force with no equal no other
一个无可比拟的力量
I've called her an angel
我称她为天使
A rogue and a stranger
又称她为一个无赖、陌生人
But it just hit me now
但现在我突然觉得
She was somebody's mother
她曾是一位母亲
Suffer the children
让孩子们受苦
Cursed with the parent
被父母诅咒
So it has been or at least until now
所以直到现在
The looking glass turned to the obvious person
镜子转向了那个人
And I've seen it all and I still don't know how
我经历了一切但却不知道
The heart won't be silent
为何心依旧如此沉默
But do I seek the silence
但我是否又在追求这个沉默呢
The question is posed now you need to explain
这个问题已浮出水面,需要一个解释
The books that I've read made me hardly prepared
我并不能解释这个问题
But then what's prepared in the tempest of pain
在这痛苦的风暴中,又在准备什么呢?
What do I know
我又知道什么呢
What do I know about it
我又了解什么呢?
I've been a soldier the wither the colder
我当过兵,一个沉默冷漠的人
I've been a wife and a lover
一位妻子,一位挚爱
I've been the backbone
我曾是顶梁柱
I've been the dead zone
我曾感到过无助
But I remember now
但我现在都记得清了
That I was somebody's mother
我曾是一位母亲
That I was somebody's
我曾是那位
That I was somebody's
我曾是那位
That I was somebody's mother
我曾是一位母亲
That I was somebody's mother
我曾是一位母亲
专辑信息
1.Sirens
2.Time
3.I Belong to You
4.She
5.You and Me
6.Collide
7.To Love Someone
8.Home
9.This Is on Me (feat. Sara Bareilles)
10.Speak
11.Somebody's Mother
12.Songbird
13.A Quiet Prayer