Time Rag-Joan Baez

[00:00.00] 作词 : Joan Baez [00:01.00] 作曲 : Joan Baez [00:17.64]Ripping along towards middle age [00:19.50]And my music career kind of missed a page [00:21.78]Record sales began to drop [00:23.70]The management all began to hop [00:25.89]Not worry, they said, you'll see [00:27.87]What you need is some fresh publicity [00:29.88]Just give us a nod and we'll all leap [00:31.98]Towards putting you back at the top of the heap [00:38.37]I said, Fine, I'll give it a whack [00:40.32]I hung up the phone and I turned my back [00:42.45]Began daydreaming I was somebody else [00:44.49]When the phone jumped over from the wall to the shelf [00:46.62]We just had a break, this is really fine [00:48.72]We can make the January issue of TIME [00:50.85]If you'll give us Monday, a week from today [00:52.89]From two to four, now what do you say? [00:56.55]I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag [01:01.17]You got me on the rag, rag [01:04.92]Take your insults about the queen [01:12.75]And shove them up your royal Timese machine [01:21.78]But I scribbled it down on the wall calendar [01:24.03]And wondered about my interviewer [01:26.10]Maybe he'd be just a real nice guy [01:28.23]Bright and sympathetic with a roving eye [01:30.06]We'd forget all about the assignment due [01:32.22]Formalities, photos, and the interview [01:34.29]We'd hop on into his big rent-a-car [01:36.48]Go for a lovely drive, not far....maybe France [01:42.57]As the big day approached it slipped my mind [01:44.64]Till my secretary showed up at the house to remind [01:46.74]Me to switch into gear for the big coup de gras [01:48.96]The meeting with the man from the media [01:51.00]I swept the driveway and polished the phone [01:53.16]Put on a Kenzo knit in two-tone [01:55.26]Fluffed the pillows in the burgundy chair [01:57.30]Made up my eyes and brushed my hair...all in that order [02:03.24]When he called to say he was three hours late [02:05.46]My cheerful facade began to disintegrate [02:07.59]The photographer'd be even later still [02:09.51]She was hopelessly lost in the nearby hills [02:11.73]He arrived not exactly the man of my dreams [02:13.83]Not bad for a rep from the Timese machine [02:16.11]Asked me a wandering question or three [02:17.97]And I thought he was actually listening to me [02:21.84]And I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag [02:26.31]You got me on the rag, rag [02:30.09]Take your insults about the queen [02:34.50]And shove them up your royal Timese machine [02:47.13]Curious about his interest [02:49.14]I babbled my way through the worldwide list [02:51.36]Ireland, Chile and the African states [02:53.43]Poetry, politics and how they relate [02:55.44]Motherhood, music and Moog synthesizers [02:57.57]Political prisoners and Commie sympathizers [02:59.73]Hetero, homo and **sexuality [03:01.77]Where they all stand in the nineteen-seventies [03:07.74]Then suddenly it stopped and he started to lobby [03:09.75]Said, Tell me some inside stuff about Bobby [03:12.06]Bobby who? I smiled and said [03:13.92]And the TIME man's face was laced with red [03:15.96]I know you guys used to know each other [03:18.06]I know you refer to him as being your brother [03:20.16]And I know that you know where he's coming from [03:22.32]I said, You know alot for being so Goddamned dumb [03:28.05]And I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag [03:32.70]You got me on the rag, rag [03:36.33]Take your insults about the queen [03:40.65]And shove them up your royal Timese machine [03:49.11]Well I never gave him quite what he came for [03:51.21]The inside story and it's really a shame [03:53.13]For I never made the January issue of TIME [03:55.41]And just before I run out of words that rhyme [03:57.42]I really should tell you that deep in my heart [03:59.58]I don't give a damn where I stand on the charts [04:01.50]Not as long as the sun sinks into the west [04:03.69]And that's going to be a pretty serious test.....of time