To Build a Home - Original Broadway Cast.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Jason Robert Brown
[00:18.175]FRANCESCA
[00:22.922]There's a boat that leaves from Napoli
[00:27.926]Every Thursday in the morning
[00:32.677]And a nervous bride can share a bed
[00:37.423]With her soldier from the States.
[00:42.427]For a week, the ocean carries them
[00:47.177]Over lost and churning water
[00:51.670]And they land in New York Harbor
[00:56.428]Then to Pennsylvania Station
[01:00.922]Where they board a train
[01:03.929]That slices like a scythe
[01:12.618]Through the fields of America.
[01:21.116]
[01:24.123]This is Albany
[01:25.621]This is Buffalo
[01:27.872]This is Cleveland
[01:30.127]This is South bend
[01:32.376]This is Chicago
[01:36.616]This is Osceola Station
[01:40.621]Where a truck will take them
[01:43.371]Deeper into Iowa
[01:49.619]To Winterset
[01:53.367]And three hundred Acres
[02:04.507]Waiting to be tamed.
[02:06.760]
[02:09.510]And blade of grass by blade of grass
[02:14.760]And ear of corn by ear of corn
[02:19.266]And bale of Hay by day by day
[02:24.257]They build themselves a home.
[02:28.505]And day by day and year by year,
[02:33.012]From boy to man, from calf to steer,
[02:37.015]What's lost from there may not grow here,
[02:41.012]But comes the sun,
[02:45.014]Look what they've done:
[02:54.217]They've built themselves a home.
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[02:57.155]Years begin passing, from 1948 to 1950 to 1951. If this were a realistic set, a farmhouse would appear.
[02:58.166]
[02:58.906]At Twenty-one, a girl begins
[03:02.658]To grasp the world and how it spins.
[03:06.164]She grabs a box of safety pins
[03:10.157]And builds herself a home.
[03:13.407]And home is safe, and home is fair,
[03:17.413]The porch, the bath, the kitchen chair,
[03:21.407]The sharp and unfamiliar air
[03:24.913]That blow by blow
[03:29.163]She comes to know
[03:36.108]To build herself a home.
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[03:37.348]It is now 1965. Her husband BUD, 45, her son MICHAEL, 16, and her daughter CAROLYN, 14, come onstage. FRANCESCA is 38 now.
[03:37.848]
[03:39.856]With a son.
[03:43.110]And a daughter.
[03:46.858]And a million miles between
[03:50.852]The fires she used to set
[03:54.357]The hearts she used to break
[03:57.853]The lies she used to tell
[04:01.104]And the woman she grew up
[04:05.794]to be.
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[04:06.294]COMPANY
[04:07.293]Aaah?
[04:12.296]Aaah?
[04:18.798]Aaah?
[04:25.287]Aaah?
[04:32.289]Aaah?
[04:38.789]Aaah?
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[04:47.485]FRANCESCA
[04:48.226]I learn to speak, I learn to sew,
[04:51.478]I learn to let the longing go,
[04:51.978]
[04:52.730]COMPANY
[04:53.675]Ah?Ah?Ah?Aaah?
[04:54.175]Aaah?
[04:54.673]Aaah?
[04:54.920]The tractor wheel, a food of snow,
[04:58.168]I build myself a home.
[04:58.924]
[05:01.675]I change my words, I change my name,
[05:05.170]The fields go dry, the horse goes lame,
[05:08.677]The county fair, the football game,
[05:11.927]For eighteen years,
[05:15.676]It stays the same,
[05:18.929]For eighteen years,
[05:22.178]I'm proud I came
[05:25.930]And built myself a home.
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[05:31.554]COMPANY
[05:32.552]Aaah?
[05:37.303]Aaah?