The Story Lyrics - Steady On - Shawn Colvin

Well, we pounded the pavement between dotted lines 

But we always belonged to the fugitive kind 

We were never the best but we were better than this 

To be made to bow down among princes 

I got thrown around hallways and bedrooms and towns 

And you run from that voice and it drags you around 

It don't matter the ruse or the weapons we choose 

There is only one thing that can free us 

Oh, so here I am, lion and the lamb 

I was born to be telling this story 

I could only be telling this story 

I will always be telling this story 

Well, our father married our mother too young 

And he took on a world like a fortunate son 

But in the cellar downstairs waiting for the bomb scare 

He would hide from us under the kitchen 

Where she simmered so soft with her weapons of tin 

And like so many suppers she just gave us to him 

And he never did guess, in her cast iron dress 

She was burning beyond recognition 

Oh, it's not over yet, oh, that I can't forget 

I am going to be telling this story 

I was born to be telling this story 

I will always be telling this story 

Sometimes I feel so reckless and wild 

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 

I gave nobody life, I am nobody's wife 

And I seem to be nobody's daughter 

So red is the color that I like the best 

It's your Indian skin and the badge on my chest 

The heat of my pride and the lips of a bride 

The sad heart of the truth and the flag of youth 

And blood that is thicker than water 

I was made to be telling this story 

I was born to be telling this story 

I am going to be telling this story 

I could only be telling this story 

I will always be telling this story