The True Story of What Was

Song The True Story of What Was
Artist Ani DiFranco
Album Educated Guess

Lyrics

[00:00.00] 作词 : DiFranco
[00:00.00] he light blue flickering rhythm of the neighbor's big console T.V.
[00:04.38] Is basking on the ceiling of another insomniac spree
[00:08.16] And outside sleep's open window
[00:10.27] Between the drops of rain
[00:12.21] History is writing a recipe book
[00:14.08] For every earthly pain
[00:16.78] Oh to clean up the clutter of echoes
[00:18.85] Coming in and out of focus
[00:20.25] Words spoken
[00:21.17] Like locusts
[00:21.97] Sing and sing
[00:22.91] In my head
[00:24.67] And thing is
[00:26.11] They often seem
[00:27.23] In my memory's long dream
[00:29.10] To be superfluous to the true story of what was
[00:34.81] Cuz
[00:35.58] Real is real regardless
[00:37.23] Of what you try to say
[00:38.21] Or say away
[00:39.62] Real is real relentless
[00:41.09] While words distract and dismay
[00:43.71] Words that change their tune
[00:45.08] Though the story remains the same
[00:47.28] Words that fill me quickly
[00:48.56] And then are slow to drain
[00:50.65] Dialogues that dither down reminiscent
[00:52.72] Of the way it likes to rain
[00:54.96] Every screen
[00:55.76] A smoke screen
[00:57.25] Oh to dream
[00:58.70] Just for a moment
[00:59.80] The picture
[01:01.32] Outside the frame
[01:04.13] Then in a flash
[01:05.05] The light blue horizon
[01:06.29] Spanning a sudden black
[01:07.84] Is sucked into the vanishing point
[01:09.92] And quiet rushes back
[01:11.86] To search for the downbeat
[01:13.18] In a tabla symphony
[01:14.88] To search in the darkness
[01:16.11] For someone who looks like me
[01:18.93] (Though I'm not really who I said I was or who I thought I'd be)
[01:25.05] Just a collection of recollections
[01:26.93] Conversations consisting
[01:28.45] Of the kind of marks we make
[01:30.61] When we're trying to get a pen to work again
[01:33.96] A lifetime of them!
[01:38.10] I say to me
[01:39.46] Now here listening
[01:41.40] I say to the locusts
[01:42.62] That sing and sing to me sitting
[01:44.99] Now here on the front porch swing of my eyes:
[01:48.09] I hereby amend
[01:49.75] Whatever I've ever said
[01:52.45] With this sigh

Pinyin

[00:00.00] zuò cí : DiFranco
[00:00.00] he light blue flickering rhythm of the neighbor' s big console T. V.
[00:04.38] Is basking on the ceiling of another insomniac spree
[00:08.16] And outside sleep' s open window
[00:10.27] Between the drops of rain
[00:12.21] History is writing a recipe book
[00:14.08] For every earthly pain
[00:16.78] Oh to clean up the clutter of echoes
[00:18.85] Coming in and out of focus
[00:20.25] Words spoken
[00:21.17] Like locusts
[00:21.97] Sing and sing
[00:22.91] In my head
[00:24.67] And thing is
[00:26.11] They often seem
[00:27.23] In my memory' s long dream
[00:29.10] To be superfluous to the true story of what was
[00:34.81] Cuz
[00:35.58] Real is real regardless
[00:37.23] Of what you try to say
[00:38.21] Or say away
[00:39.62] Real is real relentless
[00:41.09] While words distract and dismay
[00:43.71] Words that change their tune
[00:45.08] Though the story remains the same
[00:47.28] Words that fill me quickly
[00:48.56] And then are slow to drain
[00:50.65] Dialogues that dither down reminiscent
[00:52.72] Of the way it likes to rain
[00:54.96] Every screen
[00:55.76] A smoke screen
[00:57.25] Oh to dream
[00:58.70] Just for a moment
[00:59.80] The picture
[01:01.32] Outside the frame
[01:04.13] Then in a flash
[01:05.05] The light blue horizon
[01:06.29] Spanning a sudden black
[01:07.84] Is sucked into the vanishing point
[01:09.92] And quiet rushes back
[01:11.86] To search for the downbeat
[01:13.18] In a tabla symphony
[01:14.88] To search in the darkness
[01:16.11] For someone who looks like me
[01:18.93] Though I' m not really who I said I was or who I thought I' d be
[01:25.05] Just a collection of recollections
[01:26.93] Conversations consisting
[01:28.45] Of the kind of marks we make
[01:30.61] When we' re trying to get a pen to work again
[01:33.96] A lifetime of them!
[01:38.10] I say to me
[01:39.46] Now here listening
[01:41.40] I say to the locusts
[01:42.62] That sing and sing to me sitting
[01:44.99] Now here on the front porch swing of my eyes:
[01:48.09] I hereby amend
[01:49.75] Whatever I' ve ever said
[01:52.45] With this sigh