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歌手: HARRY CHAPIN
时长: 03:44
Dirt Gets Under The Fingernails (LP版) - Harry Chapin[00:00:00]
Written by:Harry Chapin[00:00:02]
Now he was a man who worked with his hands[00:00:14]
Only in a motor he found peace[00:00:17]
He could make an engine sing like a bird[00:00:21]
He could find his only lind of release[00:00:24]
When he was up to the elbows in the grease[00:00:28]
She dreamed of a time for painting[00:00:33]
As she was cleaning up his stains from the rug[00:00:37]
She'd play all day with their children[00:00:40]
And try to meet him with a welcome and hug[00:00:43]
As he came shuffling through the house with a shrug[00:00:47]
I tell you dirt gets under the fingernails[00:00:51]
And hate gets under the skin[00:00:55]
But a dream got a way of getting down to[00:00:58]
The bone[00:01:01]
And the heart of a body that it's in[00:01:01]
While he was making magic with his piston machines[00:01:11]
She was cleaning up the mess he'd left behind[00:01:14]
She was trying to make it through to the end[00:01:17]
Of the day[00:01:20]
With a little empty time[00:01:21]
Do the painting that meant peace of mind[00:01:24]
I tell you dirt gets under the fingernails[00:01:28]
And hate gets under the skin[00:01:32]
But a dream got a way of getting down to[00:01:35]
The bone[00:01:38]
And the heart of a body that it's in[00:01:39]
Well one day she didn't bother 'bout making his bed[00:01:48]
She hurried all the children out the door[00:01:51]
And she let the bills and the marketing go[00:01:55]
And she went and almost bought out an art supply[00:01:58]
Store[00:02:01]
It just so happened that day he got to thinking[00:02:04]
Of the grease that always covered up his skin[00:02:07]
So he left the garage a little early[00:02:11]
He got a shave and a manicure and trim[00:02:14]
Came out clean as a plaster maniquin[00:02:18]
He came home in a hurry[00:02:24]
But he almost didn't recognize the place[00:02:27]
It looked like it'd been hit by a hurricane[00:02:31]
There was canvas filling every open space[00:02:34]
And she had paint all over her face[00:02:37]
I tell you dirt gets under the fingernails[00:02:41]
And hate gets under the skin[00:02:45]
But a dream got a way of getting down to[00:02:48]
The bone[00:02:51]
And the heart of a body that it's in[00:02:52]
They both stood stunned into silence[00:02:58]
Then their laughter exploded like a shout[00:03:01]
And he went out to make some magic in the[00:03:04]
Kitchen[00:03:07]
The clean man learning what cooking was about[00:03:08]
And the dirty girl painting her messy heart out[00:03:11]
I tell you dirt gets under the fingernails[00:03:19]
And hate gets under the skin[00:03:22]
But a dream got a way of getting down to[00:03:26]
The bone[00:03:29]
And the heart of a body that it's in[00:03:29]