《Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare Song(2015 Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare Song(2015 Remaster)

所属专辑：Todd

歌手： Todd Rundgren

时长： 03:32

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Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song - Todd Rundgren[00:00:00]

Love unrequited robs me of me rest [00:00:08]

Love hopeless love my ardent soul encumbers [00:00:16]

Love nightmare like lies heavy of me chest [00:00:23]

And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers [00:00:31]

When you're lying awake with a dismal headache and[00:00:47]

Repose is tabood by anxiety [00:00:49]

I conceive you may use any language you choose to[00:00:51]

Indulge in without impropriety;[00:00:53]

For your brain is on fire the bed-clothes conspire of[00:00:55]

Usual slumber to plunder you:[00:00:57]

First your counter-pane goes and uncovers your toes [00:00:58]

And your sheet slips demurely from under you;[00:01:00]

Then the blanketing tickles you feel like mixed[00:01:03]

Pickles so terribly sharp is the pricking [00:01:04]

And you're hot and you're cross and you tumble and[00:01:06]

Toss til there's nothing twixt you and the ticking [00:01:08]

Then the bed-clothes all creep to the ground in a heap[00:01:10]

And you pick them all up in a tangle;[00:01:12]

Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to[00:01:14]

Remain at its usual angle [00:01:16]

Well you get some repose in the form of a dose [00:01:18]

With hot eye-balls and head ever aching [00:01:20]

But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams[00:01:22]

That youd very much better be waking;[00:01:24]

For you dream you are crossing the channel and[00:01:26]

Tossing about in a steamer from harwich [00:01:27]

Which is something between a large bathing machine[00:01:29]

And a very small second class carriage [00:01:31]

And you're giving a treat[00:01:33]

(penny ice and cold meat) to[00:01:34]

A party of friends and relations [00:01:35]

Theyre a ravenous horde [00:01:37]

And they all come on board[00:01:38]

At sloane square and south kensington stations [00:01:39]

And bound on that journey you find your attorney[00:01:40]

(who started this morning from devon);[00:01:42]

Hes a bit undersizd and you don't feel surprisd[00:01:44]

When he tells you hes only eleven [00:01:46]

Well you're driving like mad with this singular lad[00:01:47]

(by the bye the ships now a four wheeler) [00:01:49]

And you're playing round games and he calls you bad[00:01:51]

Names when you tell him that ties pay the dealer;[00:01:52]

But this you cant stand so you throw up your hand [00:01:54]

And you find you're as cold as an icicle;[00:01:56]

In your shirt and your socks[00:01:58]

(the black silk with gold clocks)[00:01:59]

Crossing salsbury plain on a bicycle:[00:02:00]

And he and the crew are on bicycles too [00:02:01]

Which they've somehow or other invested in [00:02:03]

And he's telling the tars all the particulars of a[00:02:05]

Company he's interested in;[00:02:07]

Its a scheme of devices to get at low prices all[00:02:08]

Good from cough mixtures to cables[00:02:10]

(which tickled the sailors) by treating retailers as[00:02:12]

Though they were all vegetables;[00:02:14]

You get a good spadesman to plant a small tradesman[00:02:15]

(first take off his boots with a boot tree) [00:02:17]

And his legs will take root [00:02:19]

And his fingers will wshoot [00:02:20]

And they'll blossom and bud like a fruit tree;[00:02:21]

From the green grocer tree[00:02:23]

You get grapes and green pea [00:02:23]

Cauliflower pine apple and cranberries [00:02:24]

While the pastry cook plant cherry brandy will grant [00:02:26]

Apple puffs and three corners and banburys;[00:02:28]

The shares are a penny and ever[00:02:30]

So many are taken by[00:02:31]

Rothschild and baring [00:02:32]

And just as a few are allotted to you [00:02:34]

You awake and with a shudder despairing[00:02:35]

You're a regular wreck with a crick in your neck [00:02:41]

And no wonder you snore for your heads on the floor[00:02:43]

And you've needles and pins from your soles to your[00:02:45]

Shins and your flesh is acreep for your left legs asleep [00:02:47]

And youve cramp in your toes and a fly on your nose [00:02:49]

And some fluff in your lung and a feverish tongue [00:02:51]

And a thirst that's intense [00:02:53]

And a general sense[00:02:54]

That you haven't been sleeping in clover[00:02:55]

But the darkness has passd [00:02:58]

And its daylight at last [00:03:00]

And the night has been long ditto [00:03:02]

Ditto my song [00:03:04]

And thank goodness they're both of them over[00:03:06]