所属专辑:Late Night Tales
歌手: Snow Patrol
时长: 04:08
Fancy - Snow Patrol (雪地巡游者)[00:00:00]
I remember it all very well lookin' back[00:00:01]
It was the summer I turned eighteen[00:00:04]
We lived in a one room rundown shack[00:00:06]
On the outskirts of New Orleans[00:00:09]
We didn't have money for food or rent[00:00:11]
To say the least we were hard pressed[00:00:13]
Then Mama spent every last penny we had[00:00:16]
To buy me a dancin' dress[00:00:18]
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair[00:00:21]
And she painted my eyes and lips then I stepped into a satin[00:00:23]
Dancin' dress that had a split on the side clean up to my hip[00:00:27]
It was red velvet trim and it fit me good[00:00:31]
Standin' back from the lookin' glass[00:00:35]
There stood a woman where a half gown kid had stood[00:00:37]
She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down[00:00:40]
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down[00:00:45]
Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck[00:01:01]
And she kissed my cheek[00:01:04]
Then I saw the tears wellin' up in her troubled eyes[00:01:05]
When she started to speak[00:01:08]
She looked at a pitiful shack[00:01:10]
And then she looked at me and took a ragged breath[00:01:12]
She said your Pa's run off and I'm real sick[00:01:15]
And the baby's gonna starve to death[00:01:17]
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said[00:01:19]
"To thine own self be true"[00:01:21]
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across[00:01:24]
The toe of my high heel shoe[00:01:26]
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin'[00:01:29]
Askin' Mama what do I do[00:01:31]
She said just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy[00:01:33]
And they'll be nice to you[00:01:35]
She said here's your chance Fancy don't let me down[00:01:38]
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down[00:01:42]
Lord forgive me for what I do but if you want out[00:01:47]
Well it's up to you[00:01:51]
Now don't let me down you better start movin' uptown[00:01:52]
Well that was the last time I saw my Ma[00:01:59]
The night I left that rickety shack[00:02:01]
The welfare people came and took the baby[00:02:03]
Mama died and I ain't been back[00:02:05]
But the wheels of fate had started to turn[00:02:08]
And for me there was no way out[00:02:10]
And it wasn't very long 'til I knew exactly[00:02:12]
What my Mama's been talkin' about[00:02:14]
I knew what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow[00:02:17]
That I's gonna be a lady someday[00:02:22]
Though I don't know when or how[00:02:24]
I couldn't see spending the rest of my life[00:02:26]
With my head hung down in shame you know[00:02:28]
I might have been born just plain white trash[00:02:31]
But Fancy was my name[00:02:33]
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down[00:02:35]
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down[00:02:40]
It wasn't very long after a benevolent man[00:02:47]
Took me off the street[00:02:49]
And one week later I was pourin' his tea[00:02:51]
In a five room hotel suite[00:02:54]
I charmed a king a congressman[00:02:56]
And an occasional aristocrat[00:02:58]
Then I got me a Georgia mansion[00:03:00]
In an elegant New York townhouse flat[00:03:02]
And I ain't done bad[00:03:05]
Now in this world there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrite[00:03:15]
That would call me bad[00:03:16]
And criticize Mama for turning me out[00:03:19]
No matter how little we had[00:03:21]
But though I ain't had to worry 'bout nothin'[00:03:23]
For nigh on fifteen years[00:03:26]
I can still hear the desperation in my poor[00:03:28]
Mama's voice ringin' in my ear[00:03:30]
She said here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down[00:03:32]
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down[00:03:37]
Lord forgive me for what I do[00:03:42]
But if you want out well it's up to you[00:03:43]
Now don't let me down[00:03:46]
Your Mama's gonna help you uptown[00:03:47]
I guess she did[00:03:53]