歌手: Al Stewart
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]