[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:06.38]I remember the sound of the wind as I was falling asleep. [01:13.43]The tree branches scrapping the roof like people whispering. [01:30.37]I arrived here one winter morning,or maybe it was spring. [01:34.00]And I can't remember anymore. [01:37.74]The mind plays tricks. [02:02.08]Papa has just died two weeks before. [02:04.57]The ground was frozen when they dug his grave. [02:08.13]Mama left a note at my suitcase, [02:09.81]Telling me to do something that would make her proud, [02:14.02]To be a good man. [02:22.03]There were so many winters. [03:59.31]I came here because I wanted a home, [04:02.52]Or I can find peace, [04:05.09]Or I can be treated like anyone else, [04:08.12]Or I can be anyone I want to be. [04:23.75]It wasn't always empty. [04:29.31]They all had to come down here. [04:42.30]People would lined up here holding their suitcases, [04:45.00]And their children holding on to them for dear life. [04:52.02]There were young people and old people, families. [04:55.99]But lots of them, they were completely alone. [05:43.91]They waited their turn to reach the guard at the end of the hall. [05:49.68]The guard would stamp in a book, and say, [05:51.51]“Go over there.” [05:54.99]And,“Welcome.” [06:04.08]I was one of them. [06:09.83]When I got here, I went into a huge room. [06:16.19]Doctors are asking these quick questions. [06:25.09]A doctor comes to me and tells me, [06:29.26]“You've got to go back.” [06:31.72]I say, “Back where?” [06:33.70]He says, “Back where you came from.” [06:41.03]I said, “I've got to go to New York. I come for a new life.” [06:46.72]He says, “No, you can't. You go to, back home.” [07:05.82]And I fight him. [07:07.05]He doesn't listen. [07:07.74]He says “five minutes”, and walks away. [07:10.11]I grab my suitcase, [07:11.67]And I went to hide in the closet behind all those dressing gowns. [07:16.51]And when it was dark, I went to hide somewhere else. [07:22.64]And somewhere else. [07:30.03]I stayed where nobody could find me. [07:34.47]And, a week became a month. [08:26.96]I had only one thing in mind, one place to be. [08:34.13]Like you can fly if you had the wings, [08:37.01]You can swim there if the current wasn't so hard. [08:40.85]Lots of people tried. [08:42.65]And I tried lots of times to get there. [08:53.39]I even tried to swim once, but I only made a little way. [09:07.99]One night, I met somebody else. [09:12.02]She was hiding, too. [09:14.92]So we hid together, living at night. [09:22.20]And we talk about what we would be when we got to the shore, [09:28.41]What our lives were going to be like. [09:46.44]And one day, she didn't wake up. [10:05.66]So I took her body, and put it in the water, [10:08.00]And watched it flow to where she wanted to go. [10:31.65]And I was alone again. [10:52.05]I'm sorry, we were so close. [12:33.46]There were all these millions of people who come to here, [12:38.12]And I see them all, [12:42.27]People of every color, shape, and size. [12:46.84]And I think about all those people who did, [12:50.50]All of those that made it, [12:56.94]Made it to some distant shore, [12:58.65]And when they come up the beach, [12:59.91]Or over a bridge, or onto a road, [13:03.28]They start to walk. [13:07.55]And they start walking faster and faster. [13:11.97]Then they are running. [13:17.60]They made it. [13:22.29]They were last home. [13:33.32]But don't get me wrong. [13:36.94]I am the ghost of all those who never got to get there.