所属专辑:Horses (Remastered)
歌手: Patti Smith
时长: 09:16
Birdland - Patti Smith[00:00:01]
His father died and left him a little farm in New England [00:00:25]
All the long black funeral cars left the scene[00:00:32]
And the boy was just standing there alone[00:00:34]
Looking at the shiny red tractor[00:00:37]
Him and his daddy used to sit inside[00:00:40]
And circle the blue fields and grease the night [00:00:43]
It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars[00:00:49]
'Cause when he looked up slip they started to[00:00:52]
Then he put his head in the crux of his arm[00:00:56]
And he started to drift drift to the belly of a ship [00:00:58]
Let the ship slide open and he went inside of it[00:01:11]
And saw his daddy 'hind the control board streamin' beads of light [00:01:22]
He saw his daddy 'hind the control board [00:01:33]
And he was very different tonight[00:01:40]
'Cause he was not human he was not human [00:01:44]
And then the little boy's face lit up with such naked joy[00:02:08]
That the sun burned around his lids[00:02:12]
And his eyes were like two suns [00:02:14]
White lids white opals seeing everything just a little bit too clearly[00:02:18]
And he looked around and there was no black ship in sight [00:02:22]
No black funeral cars nothing except for him the raven[00:02:25]
And fell on his knees and looked up and cried out [00:02:30]
“No daddy don't leave me here alone [00:02:35]
Take me up daddy to the belly of your ship [00:02:44]
Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it[00:02:55]
Where you're not human you are not human ”[00:03:05]
But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm [00:03:27]
Nobody there 'cept for the birds around the New England farm[00:03:38]
And they gathered in all directions like roses they scattered[00:03:43]
And they were like compass grass coming together[00:03:46]
Into the head of a shaman bouquet[00:03:50]
Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting[00:03:53]
And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of Blake[00:03:58]
Grabbing at his cheeks taking out his neck [00:04:03]
All his limbs everything was twisted and he said [00:04:06]
“I won't give up won't give up don't let me give up [00:04:10]
I won't give up come here let me go up fast [00:04:13]
Take me up quick take me up up to the belly of a ship[00:04:17]
And the ship slides open[00:04:28]
And I go inside of it where I am not human ”[00:04:33]
I am helium raven and this movie is mine [00:04:49]
So he cried out as he stretched the sky [00:04:53]
Pushing it all out like latex cartoon [00:04:57]
Am I all alone in this generation [00:04:59]
We'll just be dreaming of animation night and day[00:05:02]
And won't let up won't let up and I see them coming in [00:05:07]
Oh I couldn't hear them before but I hear 'em now [00:05:12]
It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights[00:05:15]
Moving in like black ships they were moving in streams of them [00:05:21]
And he put up his hands and he said “It's me it's me [00:05:26]
I'll give you my eyes take me up oh now please take me up [00:05:30]
I'm helium raven waitin' for you please take me up [00:05:35]
Don't let me here ” the son the sign the cross [00:05:40]
Like the shape of a tortured woman [00:05:45]
The true shape of a tortured woman [00:05:48]
The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons[00:05:50]
No longer presidents but prophets[00:05:53]
They're all dreaming they're gonna bear the prophet [00:05:57]
He's gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation[00:05:59]
It's all gonna split his skull[00:06:01]
It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shining[00:06:04]
Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up[00:06:06]
Like light like Mohammed Boxer[00:06:09]
Take them up up up up up up[00:06:10]
Oh let's go up up take me up I'll go up [00:06:13]
I'm going up I'm going up[00:06:17]
Take me up I'm going up I'll go up there[00:06:19]
Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up[00:06:21]
Up up to the belly of a ship [00:06:25]
Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it[00:06:32]
Where we are not human we're not human [00:06:42]
Well there was sand there were tiles [00:07:10]
The sun had melted the sand and it coagulated[00:07:16]
Like a river of glass[00:07:20]
When it hardened he looked at the surface[00:07:24]
He saw his face[00:07:28]
And where there were eyes were just two white opals [00:07:29]
Two white opals [00:07:33]
Where there were eyes there were just two white opals[00:07:34]
And he looked up and the rays shot[00:07:37]
And he saw raven comin' in[00:07:40]
And he crawled on his back and he went up[00:07:49]
Up up up up up up[00:07:55]
Sha da do wop da shaman do way [00:08:05]
Sha da do wop da shaman do way [00:08:14]
Sha da do wop da shaman do way [00:08:27]
Sha da do wop da shaman do way [00:08:37]
Sha da do wop da shaman do way [00:08:48]
We like birdland[00:08:58]