Objects Outlive Us - Steven Wilson.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Steven Wilson/Andy Partridge
[00:00.000] 作曲 : Steven Wilson
[00:00.000]Part 1: No Monkey's Paw
[00:05.610]I incline myself to space
[00:22.500]There was no ghost on the moor
[00:34.329]No open window
[00:41.120]No monkey's paw
[00:50.364]There in the mist, you asked me
[01:00.304]"Did you forget I exist?"
[01:14.650]I said, "Yes"
[01:21.021]'Cause you played too hard to get'
[01:45.803]Part 2: The Buddha of the Modern Age
[02:18.439]The Buddha of the modern age
[02:23.112]Is barely paid minimum wage
[02:27.917]To dole out truth and healthy karma
[02:33.514]The same he gave to our forefathers
[02:39.273]When once we reached to touch the sky
[02:44.076]Now we have no need to try
[02:48.318]The blurrеd photos of ghosts of men
[02:54.007]Such permanencе, we don't comprehend
[02:58.775]Slaughter the sacred cow to stuff our stupid mouths
[03:07.161]Already fit to burst through the insatiable thirst
[03:14.046]To kill over and over
[03:18.721]We interlopers the inferior species, wallow in our own feces
[03:31.026]Gazing down at our navels and no longer able
[03:38.520]To find some kind of perspective
[03:44.356]Amongst all the invective glory
[03:49.673]In pathways of dopamine
[03:53.814]Until time intervenes
[03:58.181]Rabble struck down
[03:59.874]Dementia or overcome
[04:03.905]Stampeding
[04:06.099]But we have no need to try
[04:18.218]Part 3: Objects: Meanwhile
[05:18.706]Her shopping bag broke sending eggs and flour crashing
[05:22.365]Down to the ground, just like star clusters smashing
[05:25.995]But, no one will give her a glance
[05:29.463]They just shuffle on home in a trance
[05:33.643]The tiniest lives fill their hives up with worry
[05:37.240]To make it to church, well, she'll need to hurry
[05:40.736]When late, she will bow down contrite
[05:44.230]While a meteor turns out the light
[05:49.314]And there, in an ordinary street
[05:52.003]A car isn't where it would normally be
[05:55.796]The driver in tears, about his payment arrears
[05:59.358]Still, nobody hears when a sun disappears
[06:03.270]In a galaxy afar
[07:02.691]First day of the new job, and he was so nervous
[07:05.839]The suit and the platitude, "Can I be of service?"
[07:09.579]His boss made him clean all the cars
[07:13.282]While he wondered, "Is there life on Mars?"
[07:17.474]And meanwhile, the stars line themselves up in order
[07:21.114]While we bicker on with our fences and borders
[07:25.012]But best not think about that
[07:29.177]It's better to live without facts
[07:33.443]And now in her old wedding bed
[07:35.907]A lady will dream that her husband is dead
[07:39.485]Of course he's alive, he'll be home around five
[07:43.328]Still, silence arrives, when a nebula dives
[07:47.008]Into our Milky Way
[09:23.842]The thunder and rain start, the paving stones melt
[09:27.066]And oddly the first spots make Orion's belt
[09:30.752]As you queue at the bank for an hour
[09:34.342]'Cause a solar flare blew out the power
[09:38.515]The nurse in the care home now empties a bath tub
[09:42.028]The water will spiral, a galaxy's vast hub
[09:45.808]Is draining away as we speak
[09:49.284]But she loses her job there next week
[09:53.516]And there with his first telescope
[09:57.172]A teenager stands full of hormones and hope
[10:00.769]As he squints at the night, like a painting of light
[10:04.030]He doesn't suppose that a black hole implodes
[10:08.414]In a trillion tears from now (Ah)
[10:52.968]Part 4: The Cicerones/Ark
[12:05.694]Back then, in time, we spoke, up for, the Earth
[12:10.161]The truth, the proof, but in, our hearts, the words
[12:14.508]We used, were not, to break, or kill, this spell
[12:19.457]Only, to warn, to track, the dark, that fell
[12:24.455]And now, here we, be the, few that, survive
[12:28.801]The ones, who knew, look back, in our, hindsight
[12:33.230]Knowing, always, there would, should be, an end
[12:37.994]Knowing, it was, just a, question, of when
[12:42.647]Each of, these souls, just on in a billion
[12:46.620]Each of, the stars, just one, in a trillion
[12:52.237]We move, on through, so dead, the void
[12:56.904]And still, back there, in dust, the Earth, destroyed
[13:01.446]Back then, in time, we spoke, up for, the Earth
[13:05.811]The truth, the proof, but in, our hearts, the words
[13:10.434]We used, were not, to break, or kill, this spell
[13:14.952]Only, to warn, to track, the dark, that fell
[13:20.017]And now, here we, be the, few that, survive
[13:24.191]The ones, who knew, look back, in our, hindsight
[13:28.990]Knowing, always, there would, should be, an end
[13:33.421]Knowing, it was, just a, question, of when
[13:38.188]Each of, these souls, just on in a billion
[13:43.038]Each of, the stars, just one, in a trillion
[13:47.351]We move, on through, so dead, the void
[13:52.395]And still, back there, in dust, the Earth, destroyed
[14:23.992]Part 5: Cosmic Sons of Toil
[14:25.673]Instrumental
[17:44.659]Part 6: No Ghost on the Moor/Heat Death of the Universe
[17:47.213]I incline myself to space
[18:02.066]There was no ghost on the moor
[18:13.838]No open window
[18:20.582]No monkey's paw
[18:30.019]There in the mist, you asked me
[18:38.738]"Did you forget I exist?"
[18:51.924]I said, "Yes"
[18:56.013]'Cause you played too hard to get'
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