[offset:0] [00:02.70]Artist:marianne faithfull [00:06.68]Songs Title:the ballad of lucy jordan [00:11.06]The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of lucy jordan [00:21.85]In a white suburban bedroom in a white suburban town [00:32.27]As she lay there neath the covers dreaming of a thousand lovers [00:40.57]Till the world turned to orange and the room went spinning round. [00:45.99]At the age of thirty-seven she realised shed never [00:56.24]Ride through paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair. [01:06.84]So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singing [01:14.42]Little nursery rhymes shed memorised in her daddys easy chair. [01:23.66]Her husband, hes off to work and the kids are off to school, [01:31.14]And there are, oh, so many ways for her to spend the day. [01:40.19]She could clean the house for hours or rearrange the flowers [01:46.67]Or run naked through the shady street screaming all the way. [01:56.43]At the age of thirty-seven she realised shed never [02:02.86]Ride through paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair [02:11.36]So she let the phone keep ringing as she sat there softly singing [02:21.03]Pretty nursery rhymes shed memorised in her daddys easy chair. [02:29.45]The evening sun touched gently on the eyes of lucy jordan [02:43.06]On the roof top where she climbed when all the laughter grew too loud [02:51.22]And she bowed and curtsied to the man who reached and offered her his hand, [03:05.20]And he led her down to the long white car that waited past the crowd. [03:14.04]At the age of thirty-seven she knew shed found forever [03:22.78]As she rode along through paris with the warm wind in her hair ...