Текст песни: Tea Without Sympathy + перевод

underneath the leaking eaves

between the sound of falling leaves

in a room by the window

Ella Mae sits all alone

recalls a time this house was home to many voices

echoed in the halls

girlish laughter climbed the walls

and the stairs in high-button shoes and petticoats

once upon a darker time

they sang the chill away in rhyme together

but she does not seem to hear the rain

she knows just how to kill the pain

she takes her tea without sympathy in books they read

behind this door her girls were sheltered from the war

and the men who had sent them for safekeeping to Ella Mae,

the local loon, whose family house had spacious rooms aplenty

then she did not need to feel alone

she made her empty house a home

she served the tea without sympathy

when long-awaited victory came

they cried as one and read the names of the men who would never claim their

daughters

then one by one they left in kind and Ella Mae was left behind to these rooms

so full of empty but she still remains here holding sway

she still prepares the silver tray

she serves her tea without sympathy

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