Good Lyric Sings Itself..

读书颇多，不求甚解，听歌不少，难得记词。像读书百遍其义自见，Good lyric sings itself.

旋律的动人如初遇时候的一见倾心，歌词则是日久生情后相携相知。常常会无心哼起某一段旋律，但记对歌词唱错调子？几乎没有。好的歌词本身就是一曲天籁。It just sings itself.

最近常常单曲重播的一首歌：Life is wonderful

it takes a crane to build a crane
    it takes two floors to make a story
    it takes an egg to make a hen
    it takes a hen to make an egg
    there is no end to what i'm saying

    it takes a thought to make a word
    and it take some words to make an action
    it takes some work to make it work
    it takes some good to make it hurt
    it takes some bad for satisfaction

it takes a night to make it dawn
    and it takes a day to make you yawn brother
    it takes some old to make you young
    it takes some cold to know the sun
    it takes the one to have the other

    it takes no time to fall in love
    but it takes you years to know what love is
    it takes some fears to make you trust
    it takes some tears to make it rust
    it takes some dust to make it polished

ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
    ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
    ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
    ah la la la la la it is so....

    it takes some silence to make sound
    it takes some loss before you found it
    it takes a road to go nowhere
    it takes a toll to make you care
    it takes a hole to make a mountain

动听的还有《Whiskey Lullaby》：

she put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette;

she broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget;

we watched him drink his pain away a little at a time;

but he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind.

until the night he put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger;

and finally drank away her memory;

life is short but this time it was bigger;

then the strength he had to get up off his knees;

we found him with his face down in the pillow

with a note that said i'll love her till i die;

and when we buried him beneath the willow

the angels sang a whiskey lullaby
    后面还有一段女性的独白唱词。大抵相似。