We Do What We Can - Sheryl Crow

作词：Bill Bottrell/Sheryl Crow/Dan Schwartz/Kevin M. Gilbert

作曲：Bill Bottrell/Sheryl Crow/Dan Schwartz/Kevin M. Gilbert

Downstairs they're playing kenton

The house set to swing

I lay in my bed

And listen to everything

Cause Leo's in rare

form tonight

His trombone

sing's so sweet

This is the room

Where they all

come to meet

He said

I do what I can

I live for the moment

And that's who I am

Yeah that's who I am

And isn't it good

If we could freeze

moments in time

We all would

But I do what I can

I do what I can

Downstairs

he's playing kenton

The magnavox sighs

But oh how the music

has changed

In all of our lives

He says nobody listens

To modern jazz

And I'll never have

what those guys have

He says

I do what I can

I work for a living

And that's who I am

Yeah that's who I am

And it's good to be alive

But everythings

different since Leo died

I do what I can

Is this the end

of the modern world

What could it mean

for a young girl

Who sees the pain

on his face

He does what he can

The procession

on the TV screen

What could it possibly

mean for a man

Who's come this far just

to turn around

Could there still be life

in kentons swing

With the Kennedys'

gone and everything

Those sad rows of houses

with their optimistic colors

Democrat grandparents

and draft-dodging brothers

Riots down the street

and discontented mothers

We do what we can

Downstairs it's quiet

Less alive somehow

Somehow he was everything

that I am now

And he says

I do what I can

I work for a living

And that's who I am

And that's who I am

But it's good to be alive

And these are the choices

We make to survive

You do what you can