ฟังเพลงNorth Dakota Slate Roof

North Dakota Slate Roof - Bruce Hornsby

Composed by：B.R. Hornsby

Produced by：Tony Berg/Will Maclellan/Bruce Hornsby

There's a slate roof and it lasts and lasts for years

There's a backyard pool algal and fungus-filled smells like beer

I turn back around face the marching and twirling here

Convertibles and high-steppers with batons and swirling cheer

My old house is now a Head Start office

Re-painted a burnished burnt umber

And the woman riding shotgun in the soroptimist's car

Stares at me like she's got my number

I watch the parade then I spot you

For the first time in twenty years where the grand old flag flew

Didn't expect to see you

Or this feeling if I did

You can learn to abide

Try to seem intrepid

It's so not true you can get used to anything

And if I'm stupid I'll hit my grave you in my ears with a deafening ring

I'm gonna get that ranch in North Dakota

Bison farm and sheltering in my shelter belt

Happy I'm a stone's throw from Minnesota

Far away while practicing my new life well

I recall it all

Probably selective memory

Oh the best times are

Cherished and forever there for me

Now I'm gonna do like I always said I would

I'm accepting what's real

And I love the starkness and the spare and endless fields

Now I'm gonna do what I always said I would

Build the fences build the troughs and buy the trucks I think I could

Buy the feed buy the farm I'm buying buying the farm

Salvation Army man's ringing the bell

Santa suit but I recognize I think I know him well

The old man says he says "Oh hi"

Then I walk by give him a high five

Pretty lame but at least I tried

And if I'm honest probably didn't want to give him that

And I think he can tell

I'm gonna get that ranch in North Dakota

Bison farm and sheltering in my shelter belt

Happy I'm a stone's throw from Minnesota

Go real far away and practicing a new life well

New life well

Gonna build a house with a slate roof

Gonna build another house with a slate roof

Like I'd always talked about

That will last and last for years no doubt

I'm gonna get that ranch in North Dakota

Bison farm and sheltering in my shelter belt

Happy I'm a stone's throw from Minnesota

But I'm far away practicing a new life well

New life well

New life well

Oh it's a new life well

My new life

New life well

New life well