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《After These Wars》歌词


歌曲: After These Wars

所属专辑:Homo Erraticus

歌手: Ian Anderson

时长: 04:29

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After These Wars

After These Wars-Ian Anderson[00:00:00]

After battle, with wounds to lick and[00:00:15]

beaus and belles all reuniting.[00:00:19]

Rationing, austerity: it did us[00:00:25]

good after the fighting.[00:00:28]

Now, time to bid some fond farewells and[00:00:34]

walk away from empires crumbling.[00:00:37]

Post-war baby-boom to fuel with post-[00:00:40]

Victorian half-dressed fumbling.[00:00:44]

I see a screen, grey cathode tube in[00:00:49]

walnut cabinet, pride of place[00:00:52]

in holy family living room. Clipped-[00:00:55]

tone announcer, powdered face.[00:00:59]

And now to mould public opinion,[00:01:04]

sanctify the good and great.[00:01:08]

Lordly over his dominion, brash[00:01:11]

Television seals our fate.[00:01:14]

After these wars, when gentler winds were blowing.[00:01:20]

After these wars, when stocking tops were showing.[00:01:26]

When the Co-op gave us daily bread[00:01:32]

and penicillin raised the dead[00:01:36]

and combine harvesters kept[00:01:39]

us fed, after these wars.[00:01:45]

We thanked the Yank and thanked the[00:01:56]

Lord for sparing us from dark invasion.[00:01:59]

Now to liberate, rebuild and balance[00:02:06]

Europe's new equation.[00:02:09]

Spooky spies in from the cold with[00:02:14]

lies and secrets to be sold[00:02:18]

to bigger brothers, bigger bombs,[00:02:21]

le Carré thrillers to be told.[00:02:24]

We take our place amongst those others[00:02:29]

who would punch above their weight.[00:02:33]

Divest ourselves of glowing mantle,[00:02:36]

mantle of old Britain Great.[00:02:39]

Bit part cast in Hollywood, ripe[00:02:45]

old thespian, tolerated.[00:02:48]

World-weary ham upon the stage,[00:02:52]

evergreen but over-rated.[00:02:55]

After these wars, when gentler winds were blowing.[00:03:01]

After these wars, when stocking tops were showing.[00:03:07]

When the Co-op gave us daily bread[00:03:13]

and penicillin raised the dead[00:03:16]

and combine harvesters kept[00:03:20]

us fed, after these wars.[00:03:25]