[id:$00000000] [ar:Stacey Kent] [ti:The Changing Lights] [by:] [hash:b1bd5ce8d524920e5830c6d90b675201] [al:] [sign:] [qq:] [total:0] [offset:0] [00:00.41]The Changing Lights - Stacey Kent [00:01.81]Written by：Kazuo Ishiguro/Jim Tomlinson [00:28.38]Were we leaving Rio [00:31.09]Or were we in New York [00:34.22]I remember bossa nova on the breeze [00:41.94]We were in the back seat [00:44.37]Of a cab we couldn't afford [00:47.56]You were holding my old rucksack on your knees [00:54.66]You leaned towards your window [00:57.27]To see the traffic up ahead [01:01.64]These commuters here you said [01:04.74]Could be the walking dead [01:11.49]And we vowed to guard our dreams [01:14.58]From all the storms that lay ahead [01:18.00]From the winds of fear and age and compromise [01:24.94]And we laughed about the hopelessness [01:28.24]Of so many peoples lives [01:31.46]As we slowly moved towards the changing lights [01:52.82]It was near Les Invalides [01:55.30]Or perhaps Trafalgar Square [01:58.69]It was late at night the city was asleep [02:06.31]You were clowning in the back seat [02:08.74]With some friends we'd found somewhere [02:12.45]The kind back then we always seemed to meet [02:19.03]There were those in this great world you said [02:22.39]Just fated to go far [02:26.27]And among the lucky ones [02:29.55]Were we inside that car [02:35.92]And your friends began to sing [02:38.65]When you wish upon a star [02:42.59]And you clapped along like you didn't have a care [02:49.43]But once I turned to glance at you [02:52.68]As we drove across the square [02:56.29]And your face looked haunted in the changing lights [03:51.20]Was it last September [03:53.68]It was autumn more or less [03:57.07]You were waiting to cross some busy boulevard [04:04.65]Talking on your phone [04:07.08]To your family I guess [04:10.72]Your briefcase tucked up high beneath your arm [04:17.25]As I approached you turned around [04:20.83]A question in your eye [04:24.30]As though I might ignore you [04:27.48]And just simply walk on by [04:36.41]But we smiled and talked awhile [04:41.27]About each others lives [04:44.53]And once or twice I caught a wistful note [04:51.05]Then you moved towards the crossing [04:54.45]As the cars slowed to a halt [04:59.77]And we waved and parted beneath the changing lights [05:28.32]And we waved and parted beneath the changing lights