Before the Fall (Spoken Word Version) - Cathartic Fall/Whitney Hanson.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Whitney Hanson/Jeoff Harris
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Whitney Hanson/Jeoff Harris
[00:28.220]Yesterday, I was asked to describe life in a single word
[00:34.790]And after a moment of contemplation
[00:37.972]The word that floated to the surface, was persistent
[00:43.337]Because I have never known anything as certain as the fact
[00:48.071]That life, will go on
[00:50.874] 
[00:51.876]Yesterday, I woke to the sight of dust
[00:56.102]Dancing in the sunlight cascading over my bed
[00:59.378]And like a sailor gazing at stars
[01:01.939]I was suddenly certain of the journey ahead
[01:04.466] 
[01:05.191]My future, tied up neatly in flecks of sunlight
[01:09.442]Before my eyes, purpose tugging at my chest
[01:13.167]I was awake, I was alive
[01:19.026] 
[01:19.946]Yesterday, I woke up with a different person living in my skin
[01:24.707]Someone so confident that they could sway the ocean
[01:27.462]If they wished, and so I did
[01:29.159]I did wish, and the tide moved in harmony with me
[01:32.500]I was just as much myself as I was the earth and the sea
[01:36.133] 
[01:36.298]Yesterday, I saw the world in color
[01:39.455]In vibrant hues of blue and green, gray skies of the past
[01:43.581]Becoming a monochromatic memory
[01:46.136]I did not know misery, and misery did not know me
[01:50.056] 
[01:50.786]Yesterday, I doubted my doubts more than I worshipped them
[01:54.640]I rejected my fear more than I followed it
[01:57.088]I abandoned my hesitation like a dirty pair of shoes
[02:00.177]That I'd been wearing for too long
[02:02.028]And I dressed myself in the purpose that was so tangible in my fingertips
[02:06.613] 
[02:06.980]I ran my hands over my anxiety
[02:09.324]And decided it was no longer worth holding
[02:11.955]I traced the border of my pain
[02:14.285]Then let it dissipate into the sky
[02:16.500]I felt the weight of my sorrow
[02:19.412]Then let it escape the cage of my mind
[02:22.010] 
[02:22.919]Yesterday, I woke up with love inhabiting every space within me, hate
[02:28.362]Becoming a shadow that cowered in the corner of my mind
[02:31.745]Life was in fact beautiful
[02:34.571]And I did, in fact, have time
[02:37.943] 
[02:39.068]You see, I've always been the kind of person who forgets
[02:42.556]That life exists on a pendulum
[02:44.383]And yesterday I was swinging high
[02:46.665]And from above the trees my shame became small
[02:50.028]From above the mountains there was nothing but sky
[02:53.310]Nothing but hope, nothing but light
[02:56.351] 
[02:56.562]Yesterday, I did not care that the life can be as blinding as the darkness
[03:01.265]That life may be persistent but it isn't always kind
[03:04.337]That love has a way of making me disregard my fear of heights
[03:07.991]How can I think about the fall when I am dancing in the sky?
[03:11.481]How can I lower my head when there is helium in my mind?
[03:15.246]I am floating among the clouds
[03:17.312] 
[03:17.555]I do not care about the rain, I am on top of the world
[03:20.472]I cannot think about pain, and so yesterday
[03:23.577]I was at the top of the mountain looking over at all
[03:27.558]Yesterday, I was three thousand feet tall
[03:31.684]Yesterday, I forgot that the higher I climb
[03:37.447]The further I fall
[03:39.995] 
[03:41.343]Today, I was asked to describe life in a single word
[03:47.014]And after a moment of contemplation
[03:50.331]The word that floated to the surface was fragile
[03:55.786]Because I have never known anything as certain as the fact
[03:59.902]That life will end
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