Slouching Towards Bethlehem-Joni Mitchell

[00:00.00](Based on a poem by W.B. Yeats) [00:00.000] 作曲 : Joni Mitchell [00:41.88]Turning and turning [00:47.34]Within the widening gyre [00:51.54]The falcon cannot hear the falconer [00:58.74]Things fall apart [01:04.14]The center cannot hold [01:08.01]And a blood dimmed tide [01:10.95]Is loosed upon the world [01:18.21]Nothing is sacred [01:23.64]The ceremony sinks [01:28.02]Innocence is drowned [01:31.32]In anarchy [01:34.68]The best lack conviction [01:40.50]Given some time to think [01:44.22]And the worst are full of passion [01:47.04]Without mercy [01:54.39]Surely some revelation is at hand [02:00.00]Surely it's the second coming [02:01.89]And the wrath has finally taken form [02:05.52]For what is this rough beast [02:08.28]Its hour come at last [02:13.83]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:19.50]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:48.18]Hoping and hoping [02:52.98]As if by my weak faith [02:57.12]The spirit of this world [03:00.63]Would heal and rise [03:04.20]Vast are the shadows [03:09.63]That straddle and strafe [03:13.65]And struggle in the darkness [03:17.04]Troubling my eyes [03:23.67]Shaped like a lion [03:29.28]It has the head of a man [03:33.09]With a gaze as blank [03:36.06]And pitiless as the sun [03:40.14]And it's moving its slow thighs [03:46.02]Across the desert sands [03:49.83]Through dark indignant [03:53.79]Reeling falcons [03:59.94]Surely some revelation is at hand [04:05.49]Surely it's the second coming [04:07.47]And the wrath has finally taken form [04:10.98]For what is this rough beast [04:13.86]Its hour come at last [04:19.44]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:25.05]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:53.40]Raging and raging [04:58.53]It rises from the deep [05:02.85]Opening its eyes [05:05.94]After twenty centuries [05:09.66]Vexed to a nightmare [05:15.33]Out of a stony sleep [05:19.08]By a rocking cradle [05:21.72]By the Sea of Galilee [05:29.22]Surely some revelation is at hand [05:34.83]Surely it's the second coming [05:36.78]And the wrath has finally taken form [05:40.32]For what is this rough beast [05:43.08]Its hour come at last [05:48.75]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:54.33]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born