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[00:00.00]Stones in the Road - Mary Chapin Carpenter
[00:30.16]When we were young we pledged allegiance
[00:33.98]Every morning of our lives
[00:37.51]The classroom rang with children's voices
[00:41.35]Under teacher's watchful eye
[00:44.76]We learned about the world around us
[00:48.78]At our desks and at dinnertime
[00:52.20]Reminded of the starving children
[00:55.96]We cleaned our plates with guilty minds
[00:59.95]And the stones in the road
[01:02.84]Shone like diamonds in the dust
[01:06.90]And then a voice called to us
[01:10.13]To make our way back home
[01:14.36]When I was ten my father held me
[01:18.14]On his shoulders above the crowd
[01:21.70]To see a train draped in mourning
[01:26.20]Pass slowly through our town
[01:29.36]His widow kneeled with all their children
[01:33.07]At the sacred burial ground
[01:36.30]And the TV glowed that long hot summer
[01:40.40]With all the cities burning down
[01:44.31]And the stones in the road
[01:47.32]Flew out beneath our bicycle tires
[01:51.39]Worlds removed from all those fires
[01:54.80]As we raced each other home
[02:27.03]And now we drink our coffee on the run
[02:30.84]We climb that ladder rung by rung
[02:34.53]We are the daughters and the sons
[02:38.21]And here's the line that's missing
[02:44.21]The starving children have been replaced
[02:47.84]By souls out on the street
[02:51.07]We give a dollar when we pass
[02:55.01]And hope our eyes don't meet
[02:58.84]We pencil in we cancel out
[03:02.16]We crave the corner suite
[03:05.86]We kiss your a** we make you hold
[03:09.50]We doctor the receipt
[03:14.03]And the stones in the road
[03:16.85]They fly out from beneath our wheels
[03:20.75]Another day another deal
[03:24.18]Before we get back home
[03:28.44]Stones in the road
[03:31.54]Leave a mark from whence they came
[03:35.60]A thousand points of light or shame
[03:39.65]Baby I don't know