《My Egyptian Couch》歌词

时长： 02:18

Now here's a book full of photographs [00:00:08]

That my ancestors made some generations ago [00:00:12]

They're wearing the lastest clothes in a nautical way [00:00:18]

The Suez Canal close behind is frozen in time [00:00:24]

The deck crews star out of a mime [00:00:30]

And they seem to be considering me [00:00:35]

Here on my Egyptian couch [00:00:38]

O the life on Edwardian steamships [00:00:43]

Is measured and slow, while down below [00:00:48]

There are fires that shudder and clang and thunder [00:00:52]

And sweat caked in smoke, and cauldrons to stoke [00:00:56]

To send the ship on her way [00:01:01]

Tasting the salt and the spray [00:01:05]

And a century later I scan the equator [00:01:09]

From my Egyptian couch [00:01:14]

And the news every day brings [00:01:36]

Contains the strangest of things [00:01:40]

But with confident smilesw my forebears decline [00:01:45]

To gaze into the wings [00:01:49]

So they look from the photographs [00:01:54]

And they're curious now, wondering how we turned out [00:01:58]

Let's say like the Chinese adage [00:02:03]

We're living our lives in interesting times [00:02:07]

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