《The Greatest Living Englishman》歌词

歌曲： The Greatest Living Englishman

所属专辑：Died In The Wool

歌手： David Sylvian

时长： 03:06

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The Greatest Living Englishman - David Sylvian[00:00:01]

Here we are then, here we are[00:02:26]

Notes from a suicide[00:02:34]

And he will never ever be[00:02:44]

The Greatest Living Englishman[00:02:49]

It's such a melancholy blue[00:03:09]

Or a grey of no significance[00:03:15]

Plastic coated surfaces[00:03:21]

A space to place his suitcase[00:03:27]

As it's passed from A to B[00:03:32]

But it's such a melancholy blue[00:03:59]

The curtains round the bed are drawn[00:04:05]

Broadcast voices from the ward[00:04:10]

The humming of machines hurt[00:04:15]

But there are distances between[00:04:21]

Yes there are distances between[00:04:28]

His aspirations visited him nightly[00:04:49]

And amounted to so little[00:04:56]

Too much self in his writing[00:05:01]

Now he will never, ever be[00:05:07]

The Greatest Living Englishman[00:05:13]

The engine shifts into second gear[00:05:31]

They're all aboard, accounted for[00:05:36]

It's a journey he must make alone[00:05:40]

The black sheep boy is leaving home[00:05:46]

It's been rehearsed a thousand times or more[00:05:56]

He's well prepared of that he's sure[00:06:02]

But still it's such a melancholy blue[00:06:10]

As he erased a page of history[00:06:17]

Much as he'd intended to[00:06:23]

He wouldn't speak or show you he was happy[00:06:53]

Though you'd meet him with your eyes[00:06:59]

There was a wall that always stood between you[00:07:05]

He'd shut himself outside[00:07:12]

And the love that he engendered[00:07:27]

Would never be enough[00:07:31]

For him to feel alive[00:07:35]

Warm and tender[00:07:39]

He'd shut himself outside[00:07:44]

Not a fake or a sham[00:08:08]

But dug in deep and fighting[00:08:11]

The world could not embrace a man[00:08:16]

With so much self in his writing[00:08:21]

And he was never gonna be[00:08:43]

The Greatest Living Englishman[00:08:49]

He had ideas above his station[00:08:57]

Minor virtues go unmentioned[00:09:03]

Little England you fit like a straightjacket[00:09:15]

Hemmed by the genius of others[00:09:20]

He said[00:09:26]

To conquer the world is not to the trace[00:09:28]

Remove even the shadow of the memory of your face[00:09:35]

A grey of no significance[00:09:47]