《Parameters》歌词

歌曲： Parameters

所属专辑：Knuckle Down

歌手： Ani Difranco

时长： 05:58

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Ani DiFranco - Parameters[00:00:00]

Thirty-three years go by[00:00:19]

And not once do you come home[00:00:20]

To find a man sitting in your bedroom[00:00:21]

That is[00:00:24]

A man you don't know[00:00:25]

Who came a long way to deliver one very specific message:[00:00:26]

Lock your back door, you idiot[00:00:31]

However invincible you imagine yourself to be[00:00:34]

You are wrong[00:00:36]

Thirty-three years go by[00:00:48]

And you loosen the momentum of teenage nightmares[00:00:49]

Your breasts hang like a woman's[00:00:53]

And you don't jump at shadows anymore[00:00:55]

Instead you may simply pause to admire[00:00:58]

Those that move with the grace of trees[00:01:00]

Dancing past streetlights[00:01:02]

And you walk through your house without turning on lamps[00:01:06]

Sure of the angle from door to table[00:01:09]

From table to staircase[00:01:11]

Sure of the number of steps[00:01:13]

Seven to the landing[00:01:15]

Two to turn right[00:01:16]

Then seven more[00:01:17]

Sure you will stroll serenely on the moving walkway of memory[00:01:19]

Across your bedroom[00:01:23]

And collapse with a sigh onto your bed[00:01:24]

Shoes falling[00:01:27]

Thunk thunk[00:01:28]

Onto the floor[00:01:29]

And there will be no strange man[00:01:30]

Suddenly all that time sitting there[00:01:32]

Sitting there on what must be the prize chair[00:01:35]

In your collection of uncomfortable chairs[00:01:38]

With a wild look in his eyes[00:01:40]

And hands that you cannot see[00:01:42]

Holding what?[00:01:43]

You do not know[00:01:44]

So sure are you of the endless drumming rhythm of your isolation[00:01:51]

That you are painfully slow to adjust[00:01:56]

If only because[00:02:00]

Yours is not that genre of story[00:02:01]

Still and again, life cannot muster the stuff of movies[00:02:05]

No bullets shattering glass[00:02:09]

Instead fear sits patiently[00:02:11]

Fear almost smiles when you finally see him[00:02:14]

Though you have kept him waiting for thirty-three years[00:02:16]

And now he has let himself in[00:02:19]

And he has brought you fistfuls of teenage nightmares[00:02:21]

Though you think you see, in your naivete[00:02:24]

That he is empty handed[00:02:26]

And this brings you great relief[00:02:27]

At the time[00:02:30]

New as you are, really, to the idea that[00:02:35]

Even after you've long since gotten used to the parameters[00:02:38]

They can all change[00:02:41]

While you're out one night having a drink with a friend[00:02:43]

Some big hand may be turning a big dial[00:02:45]

Switching channels on your dreams[00:02:48]

Until you find yourself lost in them[00:02:50]

And watching your daily life with the sound off[00:02:53]

And of course having cautiously turned down[00:02:58]

the flame under your eyes[00:03:01]

There are more shadows around everything[00:03:03]

Your vision a dim flashlight[00:03:05]

that you have to shake all the way to the outhouse[00:03:07]

Your solitude elevating itself like the spirit of the dead[00:03:10]

Presiding over your supposed repose[00:03:14]

Not really sleep at all[00:03:17]

Just a sleeping position and a series of suspicious sounds[00:03:19]

A clanking pipe[00:03:23]

A creaking branch[00:03:24]

The footfalls of a cat[00:03:25]

All of this and maybe[00:03:37]

The swish of the soft leather of your intruder's coat[00:03:39]

As you walk him step by step back to the door[00:03:43]

Having talked him down off the ledge of a very bad idea[00:03:46]

Soft leather, big feet, almond eyes[00:03:50]

The kinds of details the police officer would ask for later[00:03:53]

With his clipboard[00:03:56]

And his pistol[00:03:58]

In your hallway[00:03:59]

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