[00:00.000] 作词 : Al Stewart[00:01.000] 编曲 : Al Stewart[00:02.000] 作曲 : Al Stewart[00:29.888]The fishing boats go out across the evening water[00:34.620]Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border[00:39.268]The wind whips up the waves so loud[00:42.138]The ghost moon sails among the clouds[00:44.641]Turns the rifles into silver on the border[00:57.351]On my wall the colours of the maps are running[01:01.728]From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming[01:06.461]The torches flare up in the night[01:09.329]The hand that sets the farms alight[01:11.520]Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border[01:19.533]In the village where I grew up[01:21.579]Nothing seems the same[01:23.864]Still you never see the change from day to day[01:28.597]And no-one notices the customs slip away[01:46.197]Late last night the rain was knocking at my window[01:51.430]I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow[01:55.619]I thought I saw down in the street[01:58.179]The spirit of the century[02:00.005]Telling us that we're all standing on the border[02:08.171]In the islands where I grew up[02:10.191]Nothing seems the same[02:12.387]It's just the patterns that remain[02:13.984]An empty shell[02:17.269]But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well[02:34.993]The fishing boats go out across the evening water[02:39.507]Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border[02:44.144]The wind whips up the waves so loud[02:47.273]The ghost moon sails among the clouds[02:49.314]Turns the rifles into silver on the border[02:56.695]On the border[03:01.482]On the border[03:05.621]On the border