We Do What We Can-Sheryl Crow

[ti:We Do What We Can] [ar:Sheryl Crow] [al:Tuesday Night Music Club] [offset:0] [00:01.39]Downstairs they're playing kenton [00:07.26]The house set to swing [00:09.19] [00:12.56]I lay in my bed [00:13.87] [00:15.25]And listen to everything [00:17.68] [00:23.55]Cause Leo's in rare form tonight [00:26.10] [00:29.60]His trombone sing's so sweet [00:31.72] [00:35.03]This is the room [00:36.10] [00:37.41]Where they all come to meet [00:39.91] [00:43.65]He said [00:44.22] [00:45.90]I do what I can [00:47.96] [00:51.39]I live for the moment [00:53.64] [00:54.39]And that's who I am [00:56.82] [00:59.75]Yeah that's who I am [01:01.81] [01:08.61]And isn't it good [01:09.86] [01:14.23]If we could freeze moments in time [01:17.66]We all would [01:19.60] [01:22.72]But I do what I can [01:24.71] [01:28.52]I do what I can [01:29.77] [01:36.82]Downstairs he's playing kenton [01:38.50] [01:42.69]The magnavox sighs [01:44.12] [01:47.57]But oh how the music has changed [01:51.00] [01:51.81]In all of our lives [01:53.50] [01:58.80]He says nobody listens [02:01.30] [02:04.85]To modern jazz [02:06.48] [02:10.03]And I'll never have what those guys have [02:15.90] [02:19.08]He says [02:19.70] [02:21.20]I do what I can [02:23.64] [02:26.88]I work for a living [02:29.69]And that's who I am [02:31.87] [02:34.99]Yeah that's who I am [02:38.11] [02:43.54]And it's good to be alive [02:46.79] [02:49.28]But everythings different since Leo died [02:55.02] [02:57.83]I do what I can [02:59.83] [03:12.18]Is this the end of the modern world [03:14.80] [03:15.93]What could it mean for a young girl [03:20.36]Who sees the pain on his face [03:24.10] [03:25.22]He does what he can [03:27.16] [03:31.15]The procession on the TV screen [03:33.84] [03:36.21]What could it possibly mean for a man [03:40.70]Who's come this far just to turn around [03:45.25] [03:49.06]Could there still be life in kentons swing [03:53.17] [03:53.92]With the Kennedys' gone and everything [03:57.17] [03:58.60]Those sad rows of houses with their optimistic colors [04:02.41] [04:03.53]Democrat grandparents and draft-dodging brothers [04:07.90] [04:08.46]Riots down the street and discontented mothers [04:13.52] [04:14.52]We do what we can [04:16.26] [04:29.18]Downstairs it's quiet [04:31.05] [04:34.11]Less alive somehow [04:36.48] [04:38.85]Somehow he was everything that I am now [04:45.29] [04:48.29]And he says [04:49.10] [04:50.91]I do what I can [04:53.34] [04:56.27]I work for a living [04:58.96]And that's who I am [05:01.64] [05:04.82]And that's who I am [05:06.70] [05:13.06]But it's good to be alive [05:15.49] [05:18.86]And these are the choices [05:20.74] [05:21.55]We make to survive [05:24.42] [05:27.35]You do what you can