所属专辑:All of My Memories
歌手: John Denver
时长: 05:58
Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For) (Remaster) - John Denver (约翰·丹佛)[00:00:00]
I am the son of a grassland farmer[00:00:10]
Western oklahoma nineteen forty three[00:00:14]
I always felt grateful to live[00:00:20]
In the land of the free[00:00:23]
I gave up my father to South Korea[00:00:30]
The mind of my brother to Vietnam[00:00:35]
Now there's a banker who says[00:00:41]
I must give up my land[00:00:44]
There are four generations[00:00:50]
Of blood[00:00:52]
In this topsoil[00:00:54]
Four generations of love[00:00:56]
On this farm[00:00:59]
Before I give up[00:01:02]
I would gladly[00:01:04]
Give up my right arm[00:01:06]
What are we making weapons for[00:01:12]
Why keep on feeding the war machine[00:01:17]
We take it right out of the mouths[00:01:21]
Of our babies[00:01:24]
Take it away from the hands[00:01:27]
Of the poor[00:01:29]
Tell me what are[00:01:31]
We making weapons for[00:01:32]
I had a son and my son was a soldier[00:01:43]
He was so like my father[00:01:48]
He was so much like me[00:01:50]
To be a good comrade was the best[00:01:54]
That he dreamed he could be[00:01:57]
He gave up his future to revolution[00:02:04]
His life to a battle[00:02:09]
That just can't be won[00:02:11]
For this is not living to live[00:02:15]
At the point of a gun[00:02:18]
I remember the nine hundred days[00:02:24]
Of Leningrad[00:02:28]
The sound of the dying[00:02:29]
The cut of the cold[00:02:32]
I remember the moments I prayed[00:02:35]
I would never grow old[00:02:39]
What are we making weapons for[00:02:45]
Why keep on feeding the war machine[00:02:50]
We take it right out of the mouths[00:02:55]
Of our babies[00:02:58]
Take it away from the hands of the poor[00:03:00]
Tell me what are we making weapons for[00:03:04]
For the first time in my life[00:03:16]
I feel like a prisoner[00:03:19]
A slave to the ways of the powers[00:03:21]
That be[00:03:24]
And I fear for my children as[00:03:27]
I fear for the for the future I see[00:03:29]
Tell me how can it be[00:03:36]
We're still fighting each other[00:03:39]
What does it take[00:03:42]
For a people to learn[00:03:43]
If our song is not sung as a chorus[00:03:47]
We surely will burn[00:03:51]
What are we making weapons for[00:03:57]
Why keep on feeding the war machine[00:04:02]
We take it right out[00:04:07]
Of the mouths of our babies[00:04:09]
Take it away from the hands[00:04:12]
Of the poor[00:04:15]
Tell me what are[00:04:16]
We making weapons for[00:04:17]
Have we forgotten[00:04:23]
All the lives that were given[00:04:27]
All the vows that were taken[00:04:32]
Saying never again[00:04:37]
Now for the first time[00:04:42]
This could be the last time[00:04:47]
If peace is our vision[00:04:51]
Let us begin[00:04:57]
Have we forgotten[00:04:59]
All the lives that were given[00:05:04]
All the vows that were taken[00:05:08]
Saying never again never again[00:05:13]
Now for the first time[00:05:18]
This could be the last time[00:05:24]
If peace is our vision[00:05:29]
Let us begin let us begin[00:05:34]