《Ballad of the Absent Mare(Longer Version)》歌词

歌曲： Ballad of the Absent Mare(Longer Version)

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歌手： Leonard Cohen

时长： 06:22

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Ballad Of The Absent Mare - Leonard Cohen[00:00:00]

Say a prayer for the cowboy[00:00:15]

His mare's run away[00:00:19]

And he'll walk til he finds her[00:00:21]

His darling his stray[00:00:25]

But the river's in flood[00:00:27]

And the roads are awash[00:00:30]

And the bridges break up[00:00:33]

In the panic of loss [00:00:37]

And there's nothing to follow[00:00:44]

There's nowhere to go[00:00:47]

She's gone like the summer[00:00:50]

Gone like the snow[00:00:53]

And the crickets are breaking[00:00:55]

His heart with their song[00:00:59]

As the day caves in[00:01:01]

And the night is all wrong[00:01:05]

Did he dream was it she[00:01:12]

Who went galloping past[00:01:14]

And bent down the fern[00:01:17]

Broke open the grass[00:01:20]

And printed the mud with[00:01:23]

The iron and the gold[00:01:26]

That he nailed to her feet[00:01:28]

When he was the lord[00:01:32]

And although she goes grazing[00:01:39]

A minute away[00:01:42]

He tracks her all night[00:01:44]

He tracks her all day[00:01:47]

Oh blind to her presence[00:01:49]

Except to compare[00:01:52]

His injury here[00:01:55]

With her punishment there[00:01:58]

Then at home on a branch[00:02:05]

In the highest tree[00:02:08]

A songbird sings out[00:02:10]

So suddenly[00:02:13]

Ah the sun is warm[00:02:15]

And the soft winds ride[00:02:18]

On the willow trees[00:02:20]

By the river side[00:02:24]

Oh the world is sweet[00:02:31]

The world is wide[00:02:34]

And she's there where[00:02:36]

The light and the darkness divide[00:02:38]

And the steam's coming off her[00:02:42]

She's huge and she's shy[00:02:44]

And she steps on the moon[00:02:47]

When she paws at the sky[00:02:51]

And she comes to his hand[00:02:57]

But she's not really tame[00:03:00]

She longs to be lost[00:03:02]

He longs for the same[00:03:05]

And she'll bolt and she'll plunge[00:03:08]

Through the first open pass[00:03:10]

To roll and to feed[00:03:13]

In the sweet mountain grass[00:03:16]

Or she'll make a break[00:03:23]

For the high plateau[00:03:25]

Where there's nothing above[00:03:28]

And there's nothing below[00:03:31]

And it's time for the burden[00:03:33]

It's time for the whip[00:03:36]

Will she walk through the flame[00:03:38]

Can he shoot from the hip[00:03:42]

So he binds himself[00:03:48]

To the galloping mare[00:03:50]

And she binds herself[00:03:53]

To the rider there[00:03:56]

And there is no space[00:03:58]

But there's left and right[00:04:01]

And there is no time[00:04:03]

But there's day and night[00:04:07]

And he leans on her neck[00:04:13]

And he whispers low[00:04:16]

"Whither thou goest[00:04:19]

I will go"[00:04:22]

And they turn as one[00:04:24]

And they head for the plain[00:04:26]

No need for the whip[00:04:29]

Ah no need for the rein[00:04:31]

Now the clasp of this union[00:04:39]

Who fastens it tight [00:04:42]

Who snaps it asunder[00:04:44]

The very next night[00:04:47]

Some say the rider[00:04:49]

Some say the mare[00:04:52]

Or that love's like the smoke[00:04:54]

Beyond all repair[00:04:58]

But my darling says[00:05:04]

"Leonard just let it go by[00:05:05]

That old silhouette[00:05:09]

On the great western sky"[00:05:12]

So I pick out a tune[00:05:14]

And they move right along[00:05:16]

And they're gone like the smoke[00:05:19]

And they're gone like this song[00:05:22]