[ti:Song Of The Stoic]
[ar:Suzanne Vega]
[00:00.44]Song Of The Stoic - Suzanne Vega
[00:09.32]I am a man
[00:10.75]I’ve been working all my days
[00:13.41]This is my accounting
[00:14.88]Of my means and of my ways
[00:17.63]More years are behind me now
[00:19.65]Than years that are ahead
[00:22.04]Looking back I feel
[00:23.35]This is my story to be said
[00:26.21]I faced my father down
[00:28.01]Inside the hallway of our home
[00:30.81]18 years of pain
[00:32.38]Upon my body to the bone
[00:35.00]Demons lived inside of him
[00:37.14]They forced him to the act
[00:39.29]The layers of the bruises
[00:41.03]To my body was the fact
[00:44.09]Ooooh
[01:01.23]I grew and went into the world
[01:03.34]I learned to know it’s code
[01:05.57]Of spoken and unspoken
[01:06.45]And I learned to love the road
[01:09.77]I shoulder every burden like
[01:12.25]A mule with a heavy pack
[01:14.29]Every coin I earn is another
[01:16.48]Knot within my back
[01:18.78]Ecstasy and pleasure come
[01:20.70]At much too great a cost
[01:22.89]I keep myself upon the earth
[01:24.99]But measure what I’ve lost
[01:27.46]Winged things they brush against me
[01:29.54]Never mine to hold
[01:31.38]I keep my eyes upon the ground
[01:33.83]And carry on as old
[02:11.46]I met a woman
[02:13.03]She had the gifted touch
[02:15.27]Her hands were wise with healing
[02:17.00]And with wonder and all such
[02:19.65]As the fates would have it
[02:21.72]Each to others we are wed
[02:24.00]We confine ourselves to friendship
[02:25.58]And we stay out of the bed
[02:28.45]Now I turn around to face
[02:30.53]The specter of my age
[02:32.74]My soul it fights my body
[02:34.41]Like a bird will fight its cage
[02:37.03]I see that last horizon
[02:38.72]I hope it brings me peace
[02:41.35]I look forward to the day
[02:43.16]At last my body knows release
[02:47.67]Ooooh
[02:54.60]Ooooh