《Song of Being a Child》歌词

歌曲： Song of Being a Child

所属专辑：The Philosopher’s Stone

歌手： Van Morrison

时长： 04:09

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Song of Being a Child - Van Morrison[00:00:00]

Written by：HANDKE PETER/MORRISON VAN[00:00:01]

When the child was a child[00:00:10]

It walked with arms hanging[00:00:11]

Wanted the stream to be a river and the river a torrent[00:00:13]

And this puddle the sea[00:00:16]

When the child was a child[00:00:18]

It didn't know it was a child[00:00:19]

Everything for it was filled with life and all life was one[00:00:21]

Saw the horizon without trying to reach it[00:00:25]

Couldn't rush itself and think on command[00:00:27]

Was often terribly bored and couldn't wait[00:00:29]

Passed up greeting the moments[00:00:32]

And prayed only with its lips[00:00:33]

When the child was a child[00:00:35]

It didn't have an opinion about a thing and no habits[00:00:36]

Often sat crossed legged took off running[00:00:39]

Had a cow lick in its hair and didn't put on a face when photographed[00:00:41]

When the child was a child[00:00:51]

It was the time of the following questions[00:00:52]

Why am I me and why not you[00:00:54]

Why am I here and why not there[00:00:56]

Why did time begin and where does space end[00:00:58]

Isn't what I see and hear and smell[00:01:00]

Just the appearance of the world in front of the world[00:01:02]

Isn't life under the sun just a dream[00:01:04]

Does evil actually exist in people[00:01:06]

Who really are evil why can't it be that I who am[00:01:08]

Wasn't before I was and that sometime I the I I am[00:01:11]

No longer will be the I I am[00:01:14]

When the child was a child[00:01:25]

It gagged on spinach on peason rice pudding[00:01:26]

And on steamed cauliflower[00:01:28]

And now eats all of it and not just because it has to[00:01:30]

When the child was a child[00:01:32]

It woke up once in a strange bed[00:01:33]

And now time and time again[00:01:35]

Many people seem beautiful to it[00:01:37]

And now not so many and now only if it's lucky[00:01:38]

It had a precise picture of paradise[00:01:41]

And now can only vaguely conceive of it at best[00:01:43]

It couldn't imagine nothingness[00:01:46]

And today shudders in the face of it[00:01:47]

Go for the ball which today rolls between its legs[00:01:49]

With its I'm here it came[00:01:52]

Into the house which now is empty[00:01:54]

When the child was a child it played with enthusiasm[00:01:56]

And now only with such former concentration[00:01:58]

Where its work is concerned[00:02:00]

When the game task activity subject happens to be its work[00:02:02]

When the child was a child[00:02:13]

It was enough to live on apples and bread and it's still that way[00:02:14]

When the child was a child berries fell[00:02:17]

Only like berries into its hand and still do[00:02:19]

The fresh walnuts made its tongue raw and still do[00:02:22]

Atop each mountain it craved[00:02:25]

Yet a higher mountain and in each city it craved[00:02:27]

Yet a bigger city and still does[00:02:29]

Reach for the cherries in the treetop[00:02:31]

As elated as it still is today[00:02:33]

Was shy in front of strangers and still is[00:02:35]

It waited for the first snow and still waits that way[00:02:37]

When the child was a child[00:02:39]

It waited restlessly each day for the return of the loved one[00:02:40]

And still waits that way when the child was a child[00:02:43]

It hurled a stick like a lance into a tree[00:02:46]

And it's still quivering there today[00:02:48]

The child the child was a child[00:02:50]

Was a child was a child was a child was a child child child child[00:02:54]

When the child when the child when the child[00:03:00]

When the child when the child the child child child child child[00:03:02]

And on and on and on and on[00:03:10]

And on and on and on and on[00:03:11]

And on and on and on and on[00:03:12]

And on ward with a sense of wonder[00:03:14]

Upon the highest hill upon the highest hill[00:03:16]

When the child was a child are you there shss shss[00:03:20]

Upon a highest hill when the child was a child[00:03:26]

Was a child was a child[00:03:29]

Was a child was a child[00:03:32]

Was a child was a child[00:03:35]

Was a child was a child[00:03:38]

Was a child was a child[00:03:42]

Was a child was a child[00:03:45]

Was a child was a child[00:03:47]

Was a child was a child[00:03:49]