Long Strange Golden Road-The Waterboys

[00:00.000] 作词 : Mike Scott [00:01.000] 作曲 : Mike Scott [00:14.328]I was longing to be wooed [00:18.090]I was ready to be humbled [00:22.348]By the words that you had written [00:26.109]By the syllables you mumbled [00:30.080]Yeah, I was ready in my heart [00:33.659]To have my heart invaded [00:37.812]By the fervour of your passion [00:41.757]Yes, I came to be persuaded [00:47.608]But when I heard your ragged voice [00:51.370]Something switched in my perception [00:55.784]And I knew I was the victim [00:59.415]Of a beautiful deception [01:03.569]All my once exact beliefs [01:07.435]Like tangled threads unravelled [01:11.954]I walked out, stunned and liberated [01:15.794]And so began my travels [01:20.392]Keep the river on your right [01:25.642]And the highway at your shoulder [01:29.430]And the front line in your sights, pioneer [01:36.692]Keep your eye on the road [01:41.682]Remember what you told her [01:44.999]This is all in code, my dear [01:52.731]You better get yourself a coat [01:56.571]Said the handsome taxi driver [02:00.725]And he sighed like seven bridges [02:04.591]Like a natural-born survivor [02:09.084]As we drove into the night [02:12.558]I could feel the forest jangling [02:16.712]All the choices laid before me [02:20.656]And their consequences dangling [02:25.959]We came upon a stricken ship [02:30.400]That must have once been splendid [02:34.632]The captain as he died said "Boys [02:38.550]Our revels now are ended" [02:42.077]I heard a wild holy band [02:45.838]Playing jazz that was outrageous [02:49.731]That recalled the days of rapture [02:53.414]When our love was still young and contagious [02:59.370]Keep the river on your right [03:03.967]And the highway at your shoulder [03:07.442]And the front line in your sights, pioneer [03:14.704]Keep your eye on the road [03:19.327]Remember what you told her [03:23.063]This is all in code, my dear [03:30.508]In a dim-lit motel room [03:34.191]Two sad lovers were discoursing [03:38.553]On the dignity of exile [03:42.498]And the merits of divorcing [03:46.260]She said "all certainty is gone" [03:50.178]But he leapt up, still denying [03:53.887]Cried "I won't believe the flame I lit [03:58.119]Is dead or even dying" [04:03.683]She left him drooling in the dust [04:07.863]And with rucksack packed begun her [04:11.468]Bitter journey to the border [04:15.255]Which is where I wooed and won her [04:19.435]She was Aphrodite, Helen, Thetis [04:23.902]Eve among the satyrs [04:27.037]She was Venus in a v-neck sweater [04:30.798]She was all that ever mattered [04:35.709]Keep the river on your right [04:40.673]And the highway at your shoulder [04:44.565]And the front line in your sights, pioneer [04:51.461]Keep your eye on the road [04:56.555]Remember what you told her [04:59.533]This is all in code, my dear [05:07.422]Like Dean Moriarty's ghost [05:11.602]I came in quest of secret knowledge [05:15.442]In the winter of my journey [05:19.177]To a crumbling Druid college [05:23.043]There I read the books of lore [05:26.909]And contemplated in seclusion [05:30.540]But I took my leave embittered [05:34.929]Still in love with my illusions [05:39.997]In the drizzling Irish rain [05:44.542]As a tender dawn was breaking [05:47.833]In a doorway I stood spellbound by [05:51.491]The ancient music they were making [05:55.879]I took my breakfast with the Gods [05:59.745]On a blushing summer morning [06:03.141]Till a wind blew them all away [06:07.086]I had misread every warning [06:12.806]Keep the river on your right [06:16.699]And the highway at your shoulder [06:20.539]And the front line in your sights, pioneer [06:27.540]Keep your eye on the road [06:32.215]Remember what you told her [06:35.272]This is all in code, my dear [06:43.239]Under cold electric light [06:46.792]I watch the scenes mutating [06:50.841]Like an old time frontier ballad [06:54.733]Or a carousel rotating [06:58.573]As if in a moment from a film [07:02.596]With astonishing precision [07:06.488]The camera zooms in close [07:10.328]And a figure comes into vision [07:14.455]I'm in Tokyo, it's dawn [07:18.400]And it's raining hallelujahs [07:21.874]Down the bright-lit neon canyons [07:25.061]Along the sidewalks of Shibuya [07:29.371]I'm trying to take a stance [07:33.081]And rise above my contradictions [07:36.764]But I'm just a bunch of words in pants [07:40.865]And most of those are fiction [07:45.907]Keep the river on your right [07:50.269]And the highway at your shoulder [07:54.214]And the front line in your sights, pioneer [08:01.058]Keep your eye on the road [08:05.969]Remember what you told her [08:09.208]This is all in code, my dear