Still Life - Van Der Graaf Generator.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Peter Hammill
[00:03.89]Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now
[00:19.06]Dumb:
[00:21.78]What have we become?
[00:26.00]What have we chosen to be?
[00:30.88]Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of
[00:42.70]Our name
[00:44.87]Nothing can ever be the same:
[00:49.34]Now the Immortals are here.
[00:55.79]At the time it seemed a reasonable course
[01:05.67]To harness all the force
[01:10.96]Of life without the threat of death,
[01:14.75]But soon we found that boredom and inertia
[01:18.47]Are not negative, but all the law we know,
[01:22.84]And dead are will and words like survival.
[01:32.18]Arrival at immunity from all age, all fear and
[01:46.05]All end...
[01:47.98]Why do I pretend?
[01:53.16]Our essence is distilled
[01:56.95]And all familiar taste is now drained,
[02:06.53]And though purity is maintained
[02:12.88]It leaves us sterile,
[02:16.70]Living through the millions of years,
[02:24.27]A laugh as close as any tear;
[02:29.24]Living, if you claim that all
[02:33.04]That entails is breathing, eating, defecating,
[02:37.12]Screwing, drinking,
[02:38.25]Spewing, sleeping, sinking ever down and down
[02:42.11]And ultimately passing away time
[02:47.77]Which no longer has any meaning.
[03:08.14]Take away the threat of death and all you're
[03:13.14]Left with is a round of make-believe.
[03:17.24]Marshal every sullen breath and though you're
[03:21.98]Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy
[03:25.55]It's still the ring by which you hope to be
[03:28.26]Engaged
[03:30.15]To marry the girl who will give you forever
[03:33.39]It's crazy, and plainly
[03:35.02]That simply is not enough.
[04:31.38]What is the dullest and bluntest of pains,
[04:39.05]Such that my eyes never close without feeling it
[04:44.18]There?
[04:46.37]What abject despair demands an end
[04:52.85]To all things of infinity?
[05:00.38]If we have gained, how do we now meet the
[05:05.75]Cost?
[05:07.27]What have we bargained, and what have we
[05:10.01]Lost?
[05:11.52]What have we relinquished, never even knowing it
[05:13.94]Was there?
[05:20.88]What thoughts now of holding fast the line,
[05:27.41]Defying death and time?
[05:32.02]Everything we had is gone,
[05:35.30]Everything we laboured for and favoured more
[05:38.57]Than earthly things reveals the hollow ring
[05:42.77]Of false hope and false deliverance.
[05:51.24]But now the nuptial bed is made,
[06:00.90]The dowry has been paid:
[06:06.46]The toothless, haggard features of eternity
[06:12.65]Now welcome me between the sheets
[06:17.69]To couple with her withered body - my wife.
[06:28.85]Hers forever,
[06:34.27]Hers forever,
[06:39.79]Hers forever
[06:45.27]In still life.