[00:00.000] 作词 : Tibet
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[00:19.057]I take your hand
[00:22.087]We walk towards where the roses once grew
[00:27.494]I lie back in the grass and dream of how it once was
[00:36.794]The rubbish-strewn streets
[00:42.044]Ripe-rising smell of gutters and rain
[00:47.452]The children abandoned
[00:52.572]Mother recalls child in pool
[00:58.632]What is that that lies? deadchilddead
[01:07.174]I have such nightmares and you're all in all of them
[01:16.187]It's worse than you or I can ever know
[01:26.165]On the edge of the clouds we crouch
[01:31.677]We smile and spit
[01:36.327]The pool of saliva corruscates below our feet
[01:46.097]It shifts
[01:50.355]Children with knives begin to rise from it
[01:55.971]They laugh and blow kisses at the moon
[02:10.182]
[02:15.746]We think it's the rain
[02:19.925]I see a bird move onto the table in my garden
[02:26.534]Its beak scoops up the seeds
[02:34.162]The green of the grass and the blue of the sky
[02:39.726]Are immense and terrifying
[02:44.507]Everything seems so close
[02:47.249]So very very close
[02:50.123]Should a storm come
[02:52.108]Should a storm break and halo all around us
[02:57.098]As some savage and blind god
[03:03.628]Jerking his hands out to us
[03:08.356]The birds drop all around us
[03:16.167]
[03:23.272]I walk into the altar room
[03:25.989]All the buddhas are smashed there
[03:29.176]Avalokitesvara's hundred faces lie shattered
[03:35.916]I have done this
[03:38.658]I walk to the makeshift redbrick altar a hundred years ago
[03:44.458]There is a small brass image there
[03:48.062]I have built this
[03:50.204]The red and black ants mill around
[03:52.791]Unknown journeys
[03:54.698]I take my lighter and torch them
[03:59.269]I take my lighter and torch them
[04:03.187]I weep, I weep
[04:12.618]The ants scatter or writhe
[04:17.581]I take my lighter and torch them torch them
[04:23.119]I have done this
[04:25.287]I am surrounded by butterflies
[04:30.093]The child's legs lay smashed
[04:37.408]Please pray for him, she says to me
[04:42.319]Too late
[04:44.278]Alas, oh so too late
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[04:56.529](Dragonflies and mayflies
[05:01.284]No more dying, no more dying, DEAD)
[05:06.378]I see the twinkling stars
[05:09.016]I drop a photograph
[05:11.027]I bend to pick it up
[05:15.625]My heart leaps as I see your face
[05:21.633]Stare up at me from the paper
[05:26.048]As if still alive on this earth
[05:30.776]When I return my eyes to the stars
[05:36.157]They gather
[05:37.385]They pucker
[05:39.292]And are blind
[05:41.747]And are blind
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[06:06.355]So lost are we
[06:10.404]Oh what have I become
[06:15.158]I have become that I hate
[06:19.912]I have become that I shall say no
[06:26.626]The bird is dead now alas
[06:34.933]A voice whispers to me
[06:40.053]And says nothing nothing
[06:46.453]There is nothing
[06:50.162]I look to my right and see her face again
[06:59.383]And again the world disappears
[07:08.056]And all fall down
[07:13.280]All fall down
[07:18.270]All fall down I all fall down
[07:28.092]All fall down I all fall down
[07:37.653]We all fall down
[07:42.224]We all fall down
[07:54.267]What shadows we are...