[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.29]How Was I to Know - Missy Higgins [00:12.71]When the order came to dig the well [00:16.16]To crack the earth to pull the oil [00:19.38]To take the blood out from my mother's veins [00:25.57]Well I broke the ground to feed the mouth [00:29.14]I did not here the warning sound [00:32.24]I could not put back in what I took out [00:37.48]How was I to know [00:40.64]How was I to know [00:44.22]I'd be a stepping stone [00:47.77]To the end [00:49.92]The end of everything [00:56.40]How was I to know [01:04.23]On the day I built a house so high [01:07.91]It's antenna did scrape the sky [01:11.02]Well everyone applauded in my shadow [01:17.00]So my neighbour built a higher one [01:20.56]Then again his neighbour after him [01:23.72]Till racing through the clouds was all that mattered [01:30.43]Up and up the buildings went [01:33.43]Glass and stone and hard cement [01:36.48]Till all the green was left to die below [01:41.73]How was I to know [01:44.94]How was I to know [01:48.58]I'd be a stepping stone [01:52.31]To the end [01:54.57]The end of everything [02:00.95]The end of everything [02:07.67]How was I to know [02:15.16]Long ago I caught a pretty fish [02:18.81]Blue and silver and delicious [02:22.03]And I knew she'd line my pockets green [02:27.92]So I bought a bigger boat that had [02:31.46]A net to scrape the ocean and [02:34.69]I fished until one day that net was empty [02:39.76]How was I to know [02:43.11]How was I to know [02:46.57]I'd be a stepping stone [02:50.19]To the end [02:52.50]The end of everything [02:59.18]How was I to know [03:06.99]And how are we to now [03:09.64]Turn these stepping stones around [03:12.82]Back to everything that matters [03:16.11]Can that place even be found or is it lost [03:23.13]Forever [03:37.51]The end of everything [03:43.87]The end of everything [03:50.60]How was I to know [03:57.04]How was I to know