(If) the Book Doesn't Sell - Ritt Momney.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Jack Rutter
[00:01.00] 作曲 : Jack Rutter
[00:09.35]More so than me
[00:12.93]She knows my name
[00:16.54]And more so than me
[00:20.00]Understands this pain
[00:24.09]I'm either too lost
[00:27.22]Or not lost enough
[00:30.65]I think I'm too smart
[00:34.37]For this type of love
[00:38.22]I wasn't sent off
[00:41.63]But straight to the ground
[00:44.79]And I know God best
[00:48.42]As one with no crown
[00:52.27]Don't know why the past affects me in this way
[00:56.20]Don't know where I'll go if I leave here today
[00:59.58]But I know my limits
[01:01.33]and you're not the type to be fooling around in this way
[01:06.23]No reason you're here but there's reasons to stay
[01:09.99]Not as easy to know as it's easy to say
[01:14.15]Cause to my family and my friends
[01:16.48]I can't think of one thing that I gave
[01:22.32]But more for me
[01:26.44]And more for me
[01:30.52]More for me
[01:38.72]Aged fourteen, at midnight I hear voices from the kitchen
[01:42.95]I let my feet follow the sound as I let my ears listen
[01:46.73]I walk upstairs and at the kitchen table I can see
[01:50.25]There God is sitting with the devil
[01:51.93]Sharing drinks and old stories
[01:54.05]The floorboard creaks
[01:54.88] A red embarrassment floods all throughout God's face
[01:57.78]He swears that it's not what it looks like
[02:00.04]Then he swears he can explain
[02:01.46]The Devil speaks
[02:02.54]"Your God and I put all our differences to rest,
[02:05.28]and a man's actions are his own,
[02:07.53]But man will blame us nonetheless."
[02:09.30]The Devil stands
[02:10.20]He grabs his keys and straightens out a rusted crown
[02:13.12]He tells me, "Hell is frozen over
[02:14.90]Heaven burned down to the ground
[02:17.01]And you have only got one life
[02:19.04]So do with it what you would like
[02:20.83]We solemnly apologize
[02:22.56]but we won't be there when you die"
[02:24.43]And I stand, cold and alone
[02:26.59]In a body that won't move
[02:29.29]Watching the eyes of these gods that I once knew
[02:32.95]One pair looks down in a half-hearted lie
[02:36.08]While the other looks straight into mine with a whole truth
[02:40.38]Lacking the fear I've been told a god deserves
[02:44.46]I say, "What good is a prayer that goes unheard?"
[02:48.27]He says, "What hope could they find in a book,
[02:51.82]If the book doesn't sell and the pages stay unturned?"
[03:03.85]With a wink that Devil turns and exits the back door
[03:06.88]And God is standing there in silence
[03:08.79]with his eyes glued to the floor
[03:10.55]And then he speaks
[03:11.72]"I am no savior
[03:12.58]But I give them what they need
[03:14.51]And there has never been a dreamer who prefers reality
[03:18.34]The war for truth is raging on
[03:20.11]But it's not one you have to fight
[03:22.25]And if it is the truth you want
[03:23.95]Then it is hope you'll sacrifice
[03:26.24]It's yours to choose
[03:29.97]You can choose
[03:34.41]This is not the way I am
[03:36.12]This is just how I was raised
[03:38.06]So let me make up my own mind
[03:39.98]Let me map out my own way
[03:42.14]And to the parents of the kids
[03:43.95]whose tongues are in their throats
[03:45.33]Because of tears that you will cry
[03:47.24]if they don't stick to what they know
[03:49.27]I'm sure you're giving it your best
[03:51.05]And I am sure it takes a toll
[03:53.02]But whether God-given or not
[03:54.98]Our lives are not to be controlled
[03:56.78]Just let us choose