《Let the Slave (Incorporating the Price of Experience)》歌词

歌曲： Let the Slave (Incorporating the Price of Experience)

所属专辑：A Sense of Wonder

歌手： Van Morrison

时长： 05:29

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Let the Slave (Incorporating the Price of Experience) - Van Morrison[00:00:00]

Written by：Mike Westbrook/Adrian Mitchell[00:00:01]

Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field[00:00:14]

Let him look up into the heavens and laugh in the bright air[00:00:26]

Let the enchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing[00:00:38]

Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years[00:00:50]

Rose and look out his chains are loose his dungeon doors are open[00:01:00]

And let his wife and children return from the oppressor's scourge[00:01:20]

They look behind at every step and believe it is a dream[00:01:32]

Singing the sun has left his blackness and has found a fresher morning[00:01:47]

And the fair moon rejoices in the clear and cloudless night[00:01:59]

For empire is no more[00:02:11]

And now the lion and wolf shall cease[00:02:17]

For everything that lives is holy[00:02:23]

For everything that lives is holy[00:02:31]

For everything that lives is holy[00:02:39]

For everything that lives is holy[00:02:46]

What is the price of experience do men buy it for a song[00:03:05]

Or wisdom for a dance in the street no it is bought with the price[00:03:09]

Of all that a man hath his house his wife his children[00:03:13]

Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy[00:03:18]

And in the withered field where the farmer plows for bread in vain[00:03:22]

It is an easy thing to triumph in the summer's sun[00:03:28]

And in the vintage and to sing on the wagon loaded with corn[00:03:30]

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted[00:03:34]

To speak the laws of prudence to the homeless wanderer[00:03:38]

To listen to the hungry raven's cry in wintry season[00:03:41]

When the red blood is filled with wine and with the marrow of lambs[00:03:44]

It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements[00:03:49]

To hear the dog howl at the wintry door[00:03:51]

The ox in the slaughter house moan[00:03:54]

To see a god on every wind and a blessing on every blast[00:03:55]

To hear sounds of love in the thunder storm[00:03:58]

That destroys our enemies house[00:04:00]

To rejoice in the blight that covers his field[00:04:03]

And the sickness that cuts off his children[00:04:06]

While our olive and vine sing and laugh round our door[00:04:07]

And our children bring fruits and flowers[00:04:10]

Then the groan and the dolor are quite forgotten[00:04:15]

And the slave grinding at the mill[00:04:17]

And the captive in chains and the poor in the prison[00:04:19]

And the soldier in the field[00:04:21]

When the shattered bone hath laid him groaning[00:04:23]

Among the happier dead[00:04:24]

It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity[00:04:27]

Thus could I sing and thus rejoice but it is not so with me[00:04:31]