[ti:If I Were Brave] [ar:Shawn Colvin] [al:A FEW SMALL REPAIRS] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If I Were Brave (Album Version) - Shawn Colvin (肖恩·卡文) [00:12.85]All the happy couples on their way to New Orleans [00:17.44]Reminding me of when we got along [00:21.57] [00:22.74]They're only renting time and space to [00:25.85]Fill up with their dreams [00:28.13]And dreams are what they'll have when they have gone [00:33.06] [00:33.75]How could it be that I was born without a clue to carry on [00:39.19]And still it is the same now I am older [00:43.87] [00:44.81]Armed with just a will and then this love for singing songs [00:50.00]And minding less and less if I am colder [00:55.61]But I have this funny ache and it's burning in my chest [01:01.39]And it spreads just like a fire inside my body [01:07.37]Is it something God left out in my spirit or my flesh [01:12.99]Would I be saved if I were brave and had a baby [01:18.10] [01:20.18]It was never clear what would come [01:22.41]But that's the risk and that's the test [01:25.94]And you were the only one so far to follow [01:30.68] [01:32.53]And no one talks about when one might stop [01:35.81]And need to rest [01:37.62]Or how long you sit alone before you stop looking back [01:43.14]It's like you're waiting for Godot [01:45.90]And then you pick your sorry a** up off the street and Go [01:53.58] [02:02.12]And what the hell is this Who made this bloody mess [02:07.75]And someone always answers like a martyr [02:13.97]Is it something you should know did you never [02:17.59]Do your best [02:19.25]Would you be saved if you were brave [02:21.99]And just tried harder [02:25.05] [02:27.14]So now I ride the ought one thirtyfive to New Orleans [02:33.14]I float a mile above life's toil and trouble [02:38.32] [02:38.89]A thousand lonely lifetimes I still wait and then go on [02:45.32]A clown to entertain the happy couples