A Room Full of Shadows - Braxton Peters/April Harr.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Tom Alonso
[00:00.201] 作曲 : Tom Alonso
[00:00.402] 编曲 : Tom Alonso
[00:00.604]Erik:
[00:31.774]Close your eyes, don’t say a word
[00:36.267]Sleep is a respite from things absurd
[00:41.151]So dream your precious dreams in silence reborn
[00:46.873]You’ll be safe and warm until morning
[01:04.909]Oh, Christine, you don’t want to know!
[01:09.438]No part of my life deserves to be called a childhood.
[01:21.199]No father to guide me,
[01:24.123]No children beside me,
[01:26.730]Affection denied me,
[01:29.382]And that mask to hide me from the world!
[01:42.427]Imagine, Christine, my own mother…
[02:39.486]Each morning she placed it on my face,
[02:46.132]As routinely as tying my shoes.
[02:52.855]God only knows where she had them made,
[02:58.579]But there was always a new one when I outgrew the last.
[03:09.805]Pity her, Christine.
[03:14.748]She couldn’t bear to look at her own child!
[03:28.127]And yet, there were times, always at night,
[03:32.246]When sounds and feelings were all that mattered.
[03:36.493]We both spoke in whispers, the moment so fragile,
[03:40.607]Afraid that somehow the stillness might shatter.
[03:45.209]Soon darkness scattered as streetlamps below
[03:49.481]Shone through the tree by my window all night.
[03:53.958]Just enough light through a crack in the drapes
[03:58.047]Made shadows appear in such curious shapes.
[04:02.539]Mother would point them out one by one,
[04:06.785]And one by one each fantasy was born.
[04:13.310]Erik’s mother:
[04:16.899]Erik, what do you see?
[04:20.217]Whatever you want it to be, it will be!
[04:23.496]Young Erik:
[04:24.547]I see a lion, a witch, and a dragon,
[04:28.316]A knight on a horse and a red gypsy wagon!
[04:32.573]Mother, what do you see?
[04:36.578]Whatever you want me to be, I can be!
[04:39.706]Erik’s mother:
[04:40.707]I see a child with a heart of gold,
[04:44.306]Born into a world so shallow and cold,
[04:48.394]With only the beautiful glorified,
[04:52.518]Blind to a beauty that dwells inside.
[05:00.082]What twisted measure of human worth
[05:00.919]Condemns a child at birth?
[05:05.479]My child, my poor, dear child…
[05:12.454]Darling, wish on a star and ride on a moonbeam.
[05:23.915]Fall asleep and dream your sweet dreams.
[05:30.018]Come what may at morning’s light,
[05:35.639]The world is yours tonight.
[05:42.876]Erik:
[05:48.888]So I lay awake in a room full of shadows,
[05:51.862]Watching them dance on the wall.
[05:55.590]Dreams became real in a room full of shadows.
[05:59.374]I could be anything, anything at all!
[06:02.548]Young Erik:
[06:07.057]At times I’d become a clown in the circus,
[06:11.074]Leading the elephants through town!
[06:14.808]With a wave of my hand, they would stand up and trumpet!
[06:18.900]The children all laughed as I fell to the ground!
[06:22.545]Erik:
[06:23.574]Wishes came true in a room full of shadows.
[06:27.348]No dream was out of my reach.
[06:31.405]Worlds to explore in a room full of shadows.
[06:35.152]I had my share of foes to defeat.
[06:38.342]Young Erik:
[06:39.352]One stormy night I was captain of a whaling ship,
[06:42.727]Guiding it through a typhoon!
[06:45.427]Erik:
[06:46.487]And I rescued a maiden held captive by pirates!
[06:50.265]Young Erik:
[06:50.266]My shipmates all gasped,
[06:52.021]Erik:
[06:52.022]And the maiden just swooned!
[06:56.402]And I remember!…
[06:59.366]And so what?
[07:01.032]She amused a child with shadow games of course!
[07:04.726]It was something in the dark, where she couldn’t see me!
[07:07.478]Always in the dark, pretending not to be me!
[07:08.965]Only in the dark could we be free of what was really me!
[07:10.755]Young Erik:
[07:14.137]Erik…? Erik…?
[07:18.270]I was the child in that room full of shadows,
[07:24.804]Too busy dreaming to curse my fate.
[07:30.566]I learned to hope in a room full of shadows.
[07:39.842]Where did you learn to hate?
[07:51.837]I was loved.
[07:53.417]Erik:
[07:53.418]It was only obligation.
[07:55.710]Young Erik:
[07:55.711]She protected me.
[07:57.765]Erik:
[07:57.766]With total isolation.
[07:59.831]Young Erik:
[07:59.832]Sheltered me.
[08:01.681]Erik:
[08:01.682]By masking imperfection.
[08:03.525]Young Erik:
[08:03.526]Gave me hope.
[08:05.377]Erik:
[08:05.378]By masking her rejection!
[08:07.564]Young Erik:
[08:07.565]Protection!
[08:08.266]Erik:
[08:08.267]Isolation!
[08:09.251]Young Erik:
[08:09.252]Devotion!
[08:10.154]Erik:
[08:10.155]Obligation!
[08:11.247]Young Erik:
[08:11.248]Virtue!
[08:12.080]Erik:
[08:12.081]Impenitence!
[08:13.140]Young Erik:
[08:13.141]Caution!
[08:13.893]Erik:
[08:13.894]Indifference!
[08:14.648]Young Erik:
[08:14.649]A mother’s love!
[08:15.356]Erik:
[08:15.357]A mother’s GUILT!
[08:22.433]Young Erik:
[08:22.434]I wanted to live.
[08:24.156]Erik:
[08:24.157]Well, look what you lived for!
[08:26.158]Young Erik:
[08:26.159]I wanted to give.
[08:27.957]Erik:
[08:27.958]You’ll give ‘til there’s no more!
[08:30.150]Young Erik:
[08:30.151]Somehow or someday.
[08:31.626]Erik:
[08:31.627]Too young to have planned!
[08:33.551]Young Erik:
[08:33.552]I never lost hope.
[08:35.312]Erik:
[08:35.313]But a child doesn’t understand!
[08:37.233]Young Erik:
[08:37.234]But I did understand! I did understand.
[08:41.795]It is you who no longer understands.
[08:48.162]This world is so cold.
[08:51.575]It is better to some, but tender to none.
[08:57.918]Any kindness that we receive is a blessing.
[09:05.412]And once every night in a room full of shadows
[09:13.002]Is more than some ever receive.
[09:20.083]Erik…?
[09:21.970]When did you lose me?
[09:21.971]Both:
[09:27.972]When did we lose we?
[09:35.416]Part of you remains in that room full of shadows.
[09:47.097]Young Erik:
[09:47.098]Just reach out.
[09:50.221]Erik:
[09:50.222]I’m trying.
[09:52.588]Young Erik:
[09:52.589]I’m still there.
[09:55.135]Erik:
[09:55.136]I’m trying!
[09:58.478]Both:
[09:58.479]Just reach out!
[10:05.140]Young Erik:
[10:05.141]For her sake.
[10:12.698]Both:
[10:12.699]Find me one more time!
[10:18.741]Erik’s mother:
[10:18.742]Close your eyes, don’t say a word
[10:22.774]Sleep is a respite from things absurd
[10:27.301]So dream your precious dreams and be what you want
[10:32.491]Whatever you want, until morning
[10:46.588]Young Erik:
[10:46.589]Find me one more time...