《Before I Knocked》歌词

歌曲： Before I Knocked

所属专辑：Fifteen Poems By Dylan Thomas

歌手： Richard Burton

时长： 02:20

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Before I Knocked - Richard Burton[00:00:00]

Before I knocked and flesh let enter [00:00:00]

With liquid hands tapped on the womb [00:00:03]

I who was as shapeless as the water[00:00:06]

That shaped the Jordan near my home[00:00:08]

Was brother to Mnetha's daughter[00:00:11]

And sister to the fathering worm [00:00:13]

I who was deaf to spring and summer [00:00:17]

Who knew not sun nor moon by name [00:00:19]

Felt thud beneath my flesh's armour [00:00:22]

As yet was in a molten form[00:00:24]

The leaden stars the rainy hammer[00:00:27]

Swung by my father from his dome [00:00:29]

I knew the message of the winter [00:00:33]

The darted hail the childish snow [00:00:35]

And the wind was my sister suitor;[00:00:37]

Wind in me leaped the hellborn dew;[00:00:40]

My veins flowed with the Eastern weather;[00:00:42]

Ungotten I knew night and day [00:00:45]

As yet ungotten I did suffer;[00:00:50]

The rack of dreams my lily bones[00:00:53]

Did twist into a living cipher [00:00:56]

And flesh was snipped to cross the lines[00:00:58]

Of gallow crosses on the liver[00:01:00]

And brambles in the wringing brains [00:01:03]

My throat knew thirst before the structure[00:01:07]

Of skin and vein around the well[00:01:09]

Where words and water make a mixture[00:01:12]

Unfailing till the blood runs foul;[00:01:14]

My heart knew love my belly hunger;[00:01:17]

I smelt the maggot in my stool [00:01:21]

And time cast forth my mortal creature[00:01:25]

To drift or drown upon the seas[00:01:28]

Acquainted with the salt adventure[00:01:31]

Of tides that never touch the shores [00:01:33]

I who was rich was made the richer[00:01:36]

By sipping at the vine of days [00:01:39]

I born of flesh and ghost was neither[00:01:43]

A ghost nor man but mortal ghost [00:01:45]

And I was struck down by death's feather [00:01:48]

I was a mortal to the last[00:01:51]

Long breath that carried to my father[00:01:53]

The message of his dying christ [00:01:56]

You who bow down at cross and altar [00:02:00]

Remember me and pity Him[00:02:04]

Who took my flesh and bone for armour[00:02:08]

And doublecrossed my mother's womb [00:02:12]