Nobody's Empire-Belle & Sebastian

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Richard Colburn/Bob Kildea/Chris Geddes/Sarah Martin/Stevie Jackson/Stuart Murdoch [00:35.10]Lying on my bed I was reading French [00:38.40]With the light too bright for my senses [00:42.79]From this hiding place life was way too much [00:46.10]It was loud and rough round the edges [00:50.3]So I faced the wall when an old man called [00:53.75]Out of dreams that I would die there [00:57.60]But a sight unseen you were pulling strings [01:01.75]You had a different idea [01:06.20]I was like a child I was lying strong [01:09.61]And my father lifted me up there [01:13.88]Took me to a place where they checked my body [01:17.20]My soul was floating in thin-air [01:21.45]I clung to the bed and I clung to the past [01:25.4]I clung to the welcome darkness [01:28.56]But at the end of the night there's a green green light [01:32.70]The quiet before the madness [01:36.53]There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell [01:40.39]And she put out her arm she touched me when I was in hell [01:47.55]When I was in hell [01:52.76]Someone sang a song and I sang along [01:56.26]Cause I knew the words from my childhood [02:00.43]Intellect ambition they fell away [02:03.70]And they locked me up for my own good [02:07.68]But I didn't mind cause the silence was kind [02:11.63]It spoke to me in whispers [02:15.29]There was the sound of the wind and the cold cold dawn [02:19.19]And the quiet hum of business [02:23.8]Let me dangle awhile in this waiting room [02:26.89]I don't need to go I don't need to know what you're doing [02:34.14]Know what you're doing [03:09.70]Lying on my side you were half awake [03:13.10]And your face was tired and crumpled [03:17.53]If I had a camera I'd snap you now [03:20.79]Cause there's beauty in every stumble [03:24.60]We are out of practice we're out of sight [03:28.95]On the edge of nobody's empire [03:32.50]And if we live by books and we live by hope [03:36.43]Does that make us targets for gunfire [03:41.14]Now I look at you you're a mother of two [03:44.24]You're a quiet revolution [03:48.53]Marching with the crowd singing dirty and loud [03:51.85]For the people's emancipation [03:55.49]Did I do okay did I pave the way [03:59.70]Was I strong when you were wanting [04:03.45]I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke [04:07.8]Who was stern but never daunting [04:11.16]And he told me to push and he made me feel well [04:14.96]He told to me to leave that vision of hell to the dying [04:22.25]Oh to the dying