[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:01.42]Next Verse - Beautiful South [00:18.83]There was a pool table there at the wedding [00:24.13]That most of the men stood and played [00:28.31]Whilst the women danced in their melancholy [00:33.48]Till the last record started to fade [00:37.87]And as D J  turned the lights up [00:43.47]And packed his records away [00:48.28]He noticed a lonely figure still there [00:53.07]So quietly turned to say [00:57.98]Tears you thought lasted a lifetime [01:02.38]Won't last too much more than a day [01:06.85]And you'll prove that you still have your strength left [01:11.70]When you wipe those tears well away  well away [01:21.81]Roses in garden bring joy to the bleak [01:26.47]Lilies save wretched from worse [01:31.15]Music lifts up those too weary to speak [01:35.63]So  sister you sing the next verse [01:52.36]The path in life that you have taken [01:56.54]I can figure out just from your frown [02:01.90]Either it's down the up escalator [02:06.59]Or maybe sometimes up the down [02:10.75]And you may not feel that you have travelled [02:15.87]But sure as hell been across town [02:20.92]And certainly if story unravelled [02:25.70]You've lost more than you ever found [02:30.45]One thing's for certain I've travelled [02:34.78]And a not too dissimilar route [02:39.29]Those ups and downs and rounds after rounds [02:44.34]You're wearing them just like a suit  like a suit [02:53.34]So if roses bring joy to the bleak [02:58.59]Lilies save wretched from worse [03:03.33]Music lifts up those too weary to speak [03:07.91]Then D J  I'll take the next verse [03:14.84]So sister judge strength not by muscle [03:19.45]Or weight that your body can lift [03:23.73]But by heavyweight heart that you carry [03:28.31]That no other young woman could shift [03:33.72]Hey Mr D J  a special request [03:38.43]Play that last record for me [03:42.95]And make it as long and as painfully sad [03:47.56]As any slow ballad could be [03:52.12]As any slow ballad could be