聽歌

很久沒聽這首”Don't Cry Joni”了．
第一次聽距今天雖已十年有多，但感覺仍清晰如昨日．

那晚就在表姑婆借給我的小屋裡，和菲臘一起聽Conway Twitty磁性的聲音述說着一個關於timing的愛的故事．這首歌，一路聽下去，完了，我們都不禁相視而笑．

有沒有東西是永恆的誰也不知道，只知道一旦錯過，回頭的機會不多．
教人忘懷的其實是最放不下的那個．

Jimmy please say you'll wait for me
I'll grow up some day you'll see
saving all my kisses just for you
signed with love forever true

Joni was the girl who lived next door
I've known her I guess 10 years or more
Joni wrote me a note one day
and this is what she had to say

Slowly I read her note once more
then I went over to the house next door
her teardrops fell like rain that day
when I told Joni what I had to say

Joni, Joni please don't cry
you'll forget me by and by
you're just 15, and I'm 22
and Joni I just can't wait for you

Soon I left our little home town
got me a job and tried to settle down
but these words kept haunting my memory
the words that Joni said to me

I packed my clothes and I caught a plane
I had to see Joni I had to explain
how my heart was filled with her memory
and asked my Joni if she'd marry me

I ran all the way to the house next door
but things weren't like they were before
my tear drops fell like rain that day
when I heard what Joni had to say

Jimmy, Jimmy please don't cry
you'll forget me by and by
it's been 5 years since you've been gone
Jimmy I married your best friend John.