Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version)-Joni Mitchell

[00:00.000] 作词 : Joni Mitchell/William Butler Yeats [00:01.000] 作曲 : Joni Mitchell [00:25.990]Turning and turning [00:30.230]Within the widening gyre [00:34.740]The falcon cannot hear the falconer [00:41.810]Things fall apart [00:47.350]The center cannot hold [00:51.260]And a blood dimmed tide [00:54.760]Is loosed upon the world [01:01.320]Nothing is sacred [01:06.740]The ceremony sinks [01:11.070]Innocence is drowned [01:14.270]In anarchy [01:17.890]The best lack conviction [01:23.320]Given some time to think [01:27.280]And the worst are full of passion [01:29.970]Without mercy [01:35.780] [01:37.310]Surely some revelation is at hand [01:42.680]Surely it's the second coming [01:44.620]And the wrath has finally taken form [01:48.220]For what is this rough beast [01:51.000]Its hour come at last [01:56.520]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:02.850]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:08.420] [02:30.240]Hoping and hoping [02:35.450]As if by my weak faith [02:39.710]The spirit of this world [02:42.460]Would heal and rise [02:46.840]Vast are the shadows [02:52.240]That straddle and strafe [02:56.280]And struggle in the darkness [02:59.630]Troubling my eyes [03:03.730] [03:06.240]Shaped like a lion [03:11.680]It has the head of a man [03:15.690]With a gaze as blank [03:18.640]And pitiless as the sun [03:22.720]And it's moving its slow thighs [03:28.340]Across the desert sands [03:32.350]Through dark indignant [03:35.910]Reeling falcons [03:39.950] [03:42.270]Surely some revelation is at hand [03:47.860]Surely it's the second coming [03:51.620]And the wrath has finally taken form [03:53.280]For what is this rough beast [03:55.890]Its hour come at last [04:01.550]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:07.100]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:12.390] [04:35.370]Raging and raging [04:40.640]It rises from the deep [04:44.770]Opening its eyes [04:47.810]After twenty centuries [04:51.820]Vexed to a nightmare [04:57.410]Out of a stony sleep [05:01.050]By a rocking cradle [05:03.840]By the Sea of Galilee [05:11.190]Surely some revelation is at hand [05:16.840]Surely it's the second coming [05:18.710]And the wrath has finally taken form [05:21.880]For what is this rough beast [05:26.420]Its hour come at last [05:30.480]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:38.040]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:52.980]To be born [06:01.900]Shaped like a lion [06:13.000]Shaped like a lion [06:23.900]Shaped like a lion [06:34.980]