所属专辑:Land 1975-2002
歌手: Patti Smith
时长: 06:05
Notes To The Future - Patti Smith (帕蒂·史密斯)[00:00:00]
Listen my children and you shall hear[00:00:00]
The sound of your own steps[00:00:04]
The sound of your hereafter[00:00:06]
Memory awaits and turns to greet you[00:00:09]
Draping its banner across your wrists[00:00:12]
Wake up arms[00:00:15]
Delicate feet[00:00:17]
For as one to march the streets[00:00:18]
Each alone each part of another[00:00:21]
Your steps shall ring[00:00:23]
Shall raise the cloud[00:00:25]
And they that will hear will hear[00:00:27]
Will hear voice of the one[00:00:29]
And the one and the one[00:00:31]
As it has never been uttered before[00:00:33]
For something greater yet to come[00:00:37]
Then the hour of the prophets[00:00:40]
And their great cities[00:00:42]
For the people of Ninevah[00:00:43]
Fell to their knees[00:00:45]
Heeding the cry of Jonah[00:00:47]
United[00:00:49]
Covering themselves in sackcloth and ashes[00:00:49]
And called to their god[00:00:53]
And all their hearts were as one heart [00:00:55]
And all their voices were as one voice [00:00:57]
God heard them and his mind was moved [00:01:00]
Yet something greater will come to pass [00:01:04]
And who will call [00:01:07]
And what will they call [00:01:08]
Will they call to God [00:01:10]
The air [00:01:12]
The fowl [00:01:12]
It will not matter if the call is true [00:01:13]
They shall call and this is known [00:01:16]
One voice and each another[00:01:19]
Shall enter the dead the living flower [00:01:21]
Enter forms that we know not [00:01:24]
To be felt by sea [00:01:27]
By air [00:01:28]
By earth[00:01:29]
And shall be an elemental pledge [00:01:30]
This is our birthright [00:01:33]
This is our charge [00:01:35]
And we have given over to others [00:01:36]
And they have[00:01:38]
Not[00:01:39]
Done[00:01:39]
Well[00:01:40]
And the forests mourn [00:01:40]
The leaves fall [00:01:42]
Swaddling babes watch and wonder[00:01:44]
As the fathers of our spirit nations[00:01:46]
Dance in the street in celebration[00:01:49]
As the mountains turn pale from[00:01:52]
Their nuclear hand[00:01:54]
And they have[00:01:55]
Not[00:01:56]
Done[00:01:56]
Well[00:01:57]
Now my children[00:01:57]
You must overturn the tables[00:02:00]
Deliver the future from material rule[00:02:02]
For only one rule should be considered[00:02:06]
The eleventh commandment[00:02:08]
To love one another[00:02:10]
And this is our covenant across your wrist[00:02:12]
This offering is yours[00:02:15]
To adorn adore[00:02:18]
To bury[00:02:20]
To burn[00:02:20]
Upon a mound[00:02:21]
To hail[00:02:23]
To set away[00:02:24]
It is merely a cloth [00:02:25]
Merely our colors [00:02:27]
Invested with the blood of the people[00:02:29]
All their hopes and dreams [00:02:31]
Our flag[00:02:33]
It has its excellence[00:02:35]
Yet it is nothing[00:02:37]
It shall not be a tyranny above us[00:02:39]
Nor should god[00:02:42]
Nor love[00:02:43]
Nor nature[00:02:44]
Yet we hold as our pleasure this tender honor[00:02:45]
That we acknowledge the individual[00:02:48]
And the common ground formed[00:02:50]
And if our cloth be raised and lowered[00:02:53]
Half mast[00:02:56]
What does it tell us [00:02:57]
That an individual has passed[00:02:58]
Is saluted[00:03:01]
And mourned by his countrymen [00:03:02]
This ritual extends to us all [00:03:05]
For we are all the individual [00:03:08]
No unknown [00:03:10]
No insignificant one[00:03:12]
Nor insignificant labor[00:03:15]
Nor insignificant act of charity[00:03:17]
Each has a story to be told and retold[00:03:20]
Which shall be a glowing thread[00:03:23]
In the fabric of Man[00:03:26]
And the children shall march[00:03:27]
And bring the colors forward[00:03:29]
Investing within them[00:03:32]
The redeeming blood[00:03:34]
Of their revolutionary hearts[00:03:36]