Brandy Clark - Get High

收音机里介绍一位歌手，Brandy Clark，她本来是给别人写歌的，曾给Reba写过“The Day She Got Divorced”。她最近出了自己的专辑，“12 Stories”。她说，专辑里收录的大部分是别人不要的歌。如果你听了这些歌，大概会明白为什么别的歌手都不要。12首歌就是12个女人的故事，“What'll keep me out of heaven”是一个去偷情的女人，明知道自己在犯错误但抵制不了情人的诱惑。“Pray to Jesus”是一个喜欢买彩票的女人，跟上帝祈祷让自己中彩票。最喜欢这首“Get High”，一个丈夫孩子睡了自己偷偷在厨房吸大麻以享受片刻欢愉的女人。

Clark说，她写的歌是给那些自己不会写歌、但如果要写一首歌给自己就应该是这个样子的普通人。

She hates her job, loves her kids

Bored with her husband,

Tired of the same old list of things to do.

So when the “to-dos” have all been done,

She sits down at the kitchen table,

Rolls herself a fat one.

Smoke so sweet, fills the air,


She maybe oughta to crack a window


All she can do is stare at the paint


That’s been a’peeling off the walls


A couple of tokes and her troubles don’t seem all that tall

You know life will let you down,
Love will leave you lonely.


Sometimes the only way to get by, is to get high

She laughs out loud, at who she used to be.


The girl who’d look down on the woman smoking weed in her kitchen.


Sometimes she misses them younger days.


Seeing the world thru rose colored glasses,


Instead of this purple haze.

But you know life will let you down,
Love will leave you lonely.


Sometimes the only way to get by, is to get high

So she tucks her kids in at night


Kisses her husband turns off the lights and talks to God


Says “Lord help me accept the what I can’t change”


But until I learn to do that,
Thanks for the Mary Jane.

But you know life will let you down


Love’s gonna leave you lonely


Sometimes the only to get by, is to get high


Yeah, sometimes the only way to get by, is to get high.