所属专辑:Starsailor: The Anthology
歌手: Tim Buckley
时长: 08:42
The antique people are down in the dungeons[00:00:11]
Run by machines and afraid of the tax[00:00:16]
Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes[00:00:20]
Hauling their hearts around circular tracks[00:00:24]
Pretending forever their masquerade towers[00:00:28]
Are not really riddled with widening cracks[00:00:33]
And I wave goodbye to iron[00:00:40]
And smile hello to the air[00:00:59]
The velocity addicts explode on the highways[00:01:07]
Ignoring the journey and moving so fast[00:01:22]
Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe[00:01:51]
They run from the cops of the skeleton past[00:02:01]
Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger[00:02:05]
Into nowhere at all and they look up aghast[00:02:10]
And I wave goodbye to speed[00:02:18]
And smile hello to a rose[00:02:21]
The king and the queen in their castle of billboards[00:02:35]
Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind[00:02:41]
All their possessions and transient treasures[00:02:47]
As they go to worship the electronic shrine[00:02:53]
On which is playing the late late commercial[00:03:00]
In that hollowest house of the opulent blind[00:03:21]
And I wave goodbye to Mammon[00:03:34]
And smile hello to a stream[00:03:51]
The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage[00:04:06]
And shatter their audience with submachine guns[00:04:17]
And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns[00:04:55]
Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons[00:05:06]
While the tapdancing Emperor sings War is peace[00:05:12]
And Love the Magician disappears in the fun[00:05:16]
And I wave goodbye to murder[00:05:22]
And smile hello to the rain[00:05:25]
The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen[00:05:39]
Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives[00:05:50]
And the men who aren't men leave the women alone[00:06:02]
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives[00:06:31]
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies[00:06:43]
And in secret divorce they will never survive[00:06:46]
And I wave goodbye to ashes[00:06:51]
And smile hello to a girl[00:07:10]
The antique people are fading out slowly[00:07:20]
Like newspapers flaming in mind suicide[00:07:28]
Godless and sexless directionless loons[00:08:02]
Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide[00:08:08]
They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily[00:08:11]
The new children will live for the elders have died[00:08:15]
And I wave goodbye to America[00:08:21]
And smile hello to the world[00:08:24]