The Sleepwalkers (2005 Digital Remaster) - Van Der Graaf Generator.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Peter Hammill/jackson/Bantou/Kevin Barry Evans
[00:19.04]At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent,
[00:27.28]Is moved into action and their pace does not relent.
[00:37.39]In step, with great precision, these dancers of the night
[00:45.75]Advance against the darkness how implacable their might!
[00:52.43]Eyes undulled by moon, their arms and legs akimbo,
[00:59.72]They walk and live, hoping soon to surface from this limbo.
[01:11.58]Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day,
[01:15.61]Shall never know what's waiting mere insight away
[01:19.39]Too far, too soon.
[01:28.22]Senses dimmed in semi-sentience, only wheeling through this plane,
[01:37.00]Only seeing fragmented images, prematurely curtailed by the brain,
[01:47.41]But breathing, living, knowing in some measure at least
[01:55.97]The soul which roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast.
[02:02.78]From what tooth or claw does murder spring,
[02:05.85]From what flesh and blood does passion?
[02:09.92]Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing
[02:13.02]In deadly but delicate fashion.
[02:21.91]And every range of feeling is there in the dream
[02:26.01]And every logic's reeling in the force of the scream;
[02:29.67]The senses sting.
[02:33.71]And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls
[02:37.86]I only know the meaning of sight and that's all
[02:41.69]And that's nothing.
[02:46.32]The columns of the night advance,
[02:49.60]Infectiously, their cryptic dance
[02:51.92]Gathers converts to the fold
[02:54.24]In time the whole raw world will pace these same steps
[02:59.81]On into the same bitter end.
[03:49.62]Somnolent muster now the dancing dead
[03:53.22]Forsake the shelter of their secure beds,
[03:56.81]Awaken to a slumber whose depths they dread,
[04:00.42]As if the ground they tread would give way
[04:03.01]Beneath the solemn weight of their conception.
[04:11.38]I'd search the hidden corners of all this world,
[04:16.54]Make reason of the sensory whorl
[04:21.70]If I only had time,
[04:30.16]But soon the dream is ended.
[07:02.88]Tonight, before you lay down to the sweetness of your sleep
[07:15.95]Do you question your surrender to the drop from Lover's Leap
[07:27.68]Or does the anaesthetic darkness take hold on its very own?
[07:41.13]Does your body rise in service with not one dissenting groan?
[07:49.62]These waking dreams of life and death
[07:52.57]In the mirror are twisted and buckled;
[07:57.07]Lashes flicker, a catch of breath,
[08:00.45]Skin whitening at the knuckles.
[08:09.52]The army of sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose
[08:13.65]And though I am a talker, I can phrase no excuse
[08:17.21]Not to rise again.
[08:22.07]In the chorus of the night-time I belong
[08:25.92]And I, like you, must dance to that moonlight song
[08:29.65]And in the end I, too, must pay the cost of this life.
[08:34.54]If all is lost none is known
[08:37.54]And how could we lose what we've never owned?
[08:44.48]Oh, I'd search out every knowledge that I could find,
[08:49.64]Unravel all the mysteries of mind,
[08:54.90]If I only had time,
[08:58.89]If I only had time,
[09:03.30]But soon my time is ended.