Shawn Colvin - If I Were Brave (Live from Columbia Records Radio Hour - 1997)

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[00:00.00]If I Were Brave (Live from Columbia Records Radio Hour - 1997) - Shawn Colvin
[00:05.97]Written by：S. Colvin
[00:11.94]All the happy couples on their way to New Orleans
[00:16.68]Reminding me of when we got along
[00:20.76]
[00:22.04]They're only renting time
[00:23.65]And space to fill up with their dreams
[00:26.40]
[00:26.99]And dreams are what they'll have when they have gone
[00:30.69]
[00:31.92]How could it be that
[00:33.05]I was born without a clue to carry on
[00:36.75]And still it is the same now I am older
[00:40.14]
[00:42.32]Armed with just a will
[00:43.98]And then this love for singing songs
[00:47.34]And minding less and less if I am colder
[00:51.14]
[00:52.79]But I have this funny ache
[00:55.37]
[00:56.06]And it's burning in my chest
[00:59.26]And it spreads just like a fire inside my body
[01:04.01]
[01:05.59]Is it something god left out in my spirit
[01:09.44]Or my flesh
[01:11.33]Would I be saved if I were brave and had a baby
[01:16.38]
[01:17.73]It was never clear what would come
[01:19.65]Next but that's the risk and that's the test
[01:23.24]And you were the only one so far to follow
[01:26.83]
[01:28.85]And no one talks about
[01:30.46]When one might stop and need to rest
[01:33.34]How long you sit alone
[01:35.51]Before you stop looking back
[01:38.10]It's like you're waiting for Godot
[01:40.79]And then you pick your sorry a** up off the street and
[01:45.53]Go
[01:50.19]
[01:56.36]And what the hell is this
[01:58.69]
[01:59.22]Who made this bloody mess
[02:01.68]
[02:02.54]And someone always answers like a martyr
[02:07.27]
[02:08.24]Is it something you should know
[02:10.59]
[02:11.25]Did you never do your best
[02:14.12]Would you be saved if you were brave
[02:16.39]And just tried harder
[02:19.19]
[02:20.45]So now I ride the ought one thirtyfive to New Orleans
[02:26.23]I float a mile above life's toil and trouble
[02:30.83]
[02:32.28]A thousand lonely lifetimes
[02:33.93]
[02:34.55]I still wait and then go on
[02:37.96]A clown to entertain the happy couples