2012년 3월 14일 수요일

The Pretender -- Jackson Browne



I'm going to rent myself a house in the shade of the freeway  I'm going to pack my lunch 
in the morning and go to work each day  And when the evening rolls around  I'll go on
home and lay my body down  And when the morning light  comes streaming in  I'll get up
and do it again,  amen  Say it again, amen  I want to know  what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater
awakening  I've been aware of the time going by  They say in the end  it's the wink
of an eye And when the morning light  comes streaming in You'll get up and do it again,  

Caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender
where the sirens sing  and the church bells ring  and the junk man pounds
his fender  Where the veterans dream of the fight  Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait  for the ice cream vendor  Out into the cool of 
the evening  strolls the pretender  He knows that all his hopes  and dreams begin
and end there  

Ah the laughter of the lovers  As they run through the night  Leaving nothing for
the others  But to choose off and fight  And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams  sail out of sight  I'm going to find myself a girl
Who can show me  what laughter means  And we'll fill in the missing colors in
each other's paint-by-number dreams And then we'll put out dark glasses on
And we'll make love until our strength is gone And when the morning light comes
streaming in we'll get up and do it again 


Get it up again  I'm going to be a happy idiot  And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim  And lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the
spender  And believe in whatever may lie  in those things that money can buy
Though true love could  have been a contender  Are you there
Say a prayer for the pretender  who started out so young and strong
only to surrender Say a prayer for the pretender Are you there for the pretender

This song is about a man who gives up his dreams and lives a life of routine monotony in order to accumulate money. He is the pretender.                                                       (songfacts.com) 


      

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