所属专辑:In Camera
歌手: Peter Hammill
时长: 05:46
In my youth I played at trainsnow all steam is gone[00:00:17]
In my dreams brief shelter from the rain[00:00:26]
I try to catch the fireglow[00:00:35]
With Dinky Toys I thought that I was Stirling[00:00:44]
With cricket bat I say myself as Peter May[00:00:48]
Now with all these images returning[00:00:52]
I wonder who I am today[00:00:55]
As a child I refought the war with plastic planes[00:01:00]
And imagination[00:01:21]
I was the saviour of the Nation[00:01:24]
Oh To be the captain of a ship of war[00:01:36]
The pilot of a Tempest or a York[00:01:39]
To hold my trench against the Panzer Korps[00:01:43]
Instead of simply being one who talks[00:01:47]
And reminisces of his fantasies[00:01:55]
As though life was nothing but to lose[00:01:59]
These only antecede the knowledge that eventually[00:02:03]
He must choose[00:02:17]
That our options diminish[00:02:22]
As our faculties for choice increase[00:02:27]
Till we choose everything and nothing[00:02:31]
Too late at the finish[00:03:01]
In my youth I held beliefmy faith and thought were strong[00:03:11]
Of the sight of right and wrong[00:03:36]
Oh To be the son of Che Guevara[00:03:46]
One unit in the serried ranks of black[00:03:54]
A Papist or an Orangeman a eunuch[00:04:14]
Then doubt would never cast the dagger in my back[00:04:19]
Oh To be King John or Douglas Bader[00:04:50]
Humphrey Bogart or Victor Mature[00:04:58]
Which one is false and easy[00:05:04]
Which one harder[00:05:24]
Of this[00:05:32]
Of me[00:05:33]