[00:00:00] There Was Only One Choice (只有一个选择) (Edited Version) - Harry Chapin [00:00:08] There's a kid out on my corner hear him strumming like a fool [00:00:13] Shivering in his dungarees but still he's going to school [00:00:17] His cheeks are made of peach fuzz his hopes may be the same [00:00:21] But he's signed up as a soldier out to play the music game [00:00:26] There are fake patches on his jacket [00:00:28] He's used bleach to fade his jeans [00:00:30] With a brand new stay pressed shirt [00:00:32] And some creased and wrinkled dreams [00:00:34] His face a blemish garden but his eyes are virgin clear [00:00:39] His voice is chicken little's but he's hearing paul revere [00:00:44] When he catches himself giggling [00:00:46] He forces up a sneer [00:00:48] Though he'd rather have a milk shake [00:00:50] He keeps forcing down the beer [00:00:52] Just another folkie late in coming down the pike [00:00:57] Riding his guitar he left kid brother with his bike [00:01:03] And he's got guthrie running in his bones [00:01:06] He's the hobo kid who's left his home [00:01:08] And his beatles records and the rolling stones [00:01:10] This boy is staying acoustic [00:01:12] There's seeger singing in his heart [00:01:14] He hopes his songs will somehow start [00:01:16] To heal the cracks that split apart [00:01:19] America gone plastic [00:01:22] And now there's dylan dripping from his mouth [00:01:26] He's hitching himself way down south [00:01:29] To learn a little black and blues [00:01:32] From old street men who paid their dues [00:01:35] Cause they knew they had nothing to lose [00:01:37] They knew it so they just got to it [00:01:43] With cracked old gibsons and red clay shoes [00:01:45] Playing 1 4 5 chords like good news [00:01:49] And cursed with skin that calls for blood [00:01:52] They put their face and feet in mud [00:01:55] But oh they learned the music from way down there [00:01:59] The real ones learn it somewhere [00:02:03] Strum your guitar sing it kid [00:02:08] Just write about your feelings not the things you never did [00:02:13] Inexperience it once had cursed me [00:02:17] But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty [00:02:24] Hey kid you know you can hear your footsteps [00:02:30] As you're kicking up the dust [00:02:32] And the rustling in the shadows tells you secrets you can trust [00:02:36] The capturing of whispers is the way to write a song [00:02:40] It's when you get to microphones the music can go wrong [00:02:51] You can't see the audience with spotlights in your eyes [00:02:55] Your feet can't feel the highway from where the lear jet flies [00:02:59] When you glide in silent splendor in your padded limousines [00:03:03] Only you are crying there behind the silver screen [00:03:10] Now you battle dragons but they'll all turn into frogs [00:03:14] When you grab the wheel of fortune you get caught up in the cog [00:03:26] First your art turns into craft then the yahoos start to laugh [00:03:30] Then you'll hear the jackals howl cause they love to watch the fall [00:03:34] They're the lost ones out there feeding [00:03:36] On the wounded and the bleeding [00:03:39] They always are the first to see the cracks upon the walls [00:03:54] When I started this song I was still thirty-three [00:03:59] The age that mozart died and sweet jesus was set free [00:04:03] Keats and shelley too soon finished charley parker would be [00:04:07] And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me [00:04:14] Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four [00:04:18] Mere mortal not immortal not star-crossed anymore [00:04:22] I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore [00:04:27] A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar [00:04:34] And I can't help being frightened on these midnight afternoons [00:04:38] When I ask the loaded questions [00:04:40] Why does winter come so soon [00:04:43] And where are all the golden girls that I was singing for [00:04:47] The daybreak chorus of my dreams serenades no more [00:04:54] Yeah the minute man is going soft the mirror's on the shelf [00:04:58] Only when the truth's up there can you fool yourself [00:05:02] I am the aged jester who won't gracefully retire [00:05:05] A clumsy clown without a net caught staggering on the high wire [00:05:10] Yesterday's a collar that has settled round my waist [00:05:13] Today keeps slipping by me it leaves no aftertaste [00:05:17] Tomorrow is a daydream the future's never true [00:05:21] Am I just a fading fire or a breeze passing through [00:05:38] Hello my country I once came to tell everyone your story [00:05:50] Your passion was my poetry [00:05:57] And your past my most potent glory [00:06:06] Your promise was my prayer [00:06:14] Your hypocrisy my nightmare [00:06:20] And your problems fill my present [00:06:29] Are we both going somewhere [00:06:45] Step right up young lady [00:06:47] Your two hundred birthdays make you old if not senile [00:06:51] And we see the symptoms there in your rigor mortise smile [00:06:55] With your old folks eating dog food and your children eating paint [00:07:00] While the pirates own the flag and sell us sermons on restraint [00:07:08] And while blood's the only language [00:07:10] That your deaf old ears can hear [00:07:13] And still you will not answer with that message coming clear [00:07:17] Does it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream [00:07:21] And the buzzards own the carcass of your dream [00:07:28] Oh b u y centennial [00:07:31] Sell em pre-canned laughter [00:07:33] America perennial [00:07:35] Sing happy ever after [00:07:46] There's a dance band on the titanic [00:07:50] Singing nearer my god to thee [00:07:54] And the iceberg's on the starboard bow [00:07:59] Won't you dance with me [00:08:10] Yes I read it in the new york times [00:08:11] That was on the stands today [00:08:13] It said that dreams were out of fashion [00:08:16] We'll hear no more empty promises [00:08:18] There'll be no more wasted passions [00:08:20] To clutter up our play [00:08:23] It really was a good sign [00:08:25] The words went on to say [00:08:27] It shows that we are growing up [00:08:28] In oh so many healthy ways [00:08:31] And I told myself this is exactly where I'm at [00:08:36] But I don't much like thinking about that [00:08:49] Harry are you really so naive [00:08:52] You can honestly believe [00:08:54] That the country's getting better [00:08:57] When all you do is let her alone [00:09:01] Harry can you really be surprised [00:09:05] When it's there before your eyes [00:09:07] When you hold the knife that carves her [00:09:09] You live the life that starves her to the bone [00:09:15] Good dreams don't come cheap [00:09:19] You've got to pay for them [00:09:23] If you just dream when you're asleep [00:09:27] There is no way for them to come alive to survive [00:09:47] It's not enough to listen it's not enough to see [00:09:51] When the hurricane is coming on it's not enough to flee [00:09:55] It's not enough to be in love we hide behind that word [00:09:59] It's not enough to be alive when your future's been deferred [00:10:11] What I've run through my body what I've run through my mind [00:10:15] My breath's the only rhythm and the tempo is my time [00:10:19] My enemy is hopelessness my ally honest doubt [00:10:23] The answer is a question that I never will find out [00:10:30] Is music propaganda should I boogie rock and roll [00:10:34] Or just an early warning system hitched up to my soul [00:10:38] Am I observer or participant or huckster of belief [00:10:42] Making too much of a life so mercifully brief [00:11:04] So I stride down sunny streets and the band plays back my song [00:11:10] They're applauding at my shadow long after I am gone [00:11:14] Should I hold this wistful notion that the journey is worthwhile [00:11:19] Or tiptoe cross the chasm with a song and a smile [00:11:28] Well I got up this morning I don't need to know no more [00:11:32] It evaporated nightmares that had boiled the night before [00:11:37] With every new day's dawning my kid climbs in my bed [00:11:41] And tells the cynics of the board room your language is dead [00:11:50] And as I wander with my music through the jungles of despair 404

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