The Waterboys《Long Strange Golden Road》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:15.66]I was longing to be wooed [00:19.18]I was ready to be humbled [00:23.44]By the words that you had written [00:26.74]By the syllables you mumbled [00:31.11]Yeah  I was ready in my heart [00:35.55]To have my heart invaded [00:39.16]By the fervour of your passion me [00:42.77]Yes  I came to be persuaded [00:48.79]But when I heard your ragged voice [00:52.30]Something switched in my perception [00:57.07]And I knew I was the victim [01:00.31]Of a beautiful deception [01:04.73]All my once exact beliefs [01:08.95]Like tangled threads unravelled [01:12.37]I walked out  stunned and liberated [01:17.44]And so began my travels [01:22.62]Keep the river on your right [01:26.58]And the highway at your shoulder [01:30.50]And the front line in your sights  pioneer [01:37.78]Keep your eye on the road [01:43.11]Remember what you told her [01:45.87]This is all in code  my dear [01:53.89]You better get yourself a coat [01:57.98]Said the handsome taxi driver [02:01.95]And he sighed like seven bridges [02:05.90]Like a natural-born survivor [02:09.89]As we drove into the night [02:13.88]I could feel the forest jangling [02:17.89]All the choices laid before me [02:21.61]And their consequences dangling [02:27.18]We came upon a stricken ship [02:32.00]That must have once been splendid [02:35.97]The captain as he died said Boys [02:39.17]Our revels now are ended [02:42.87]I heard a wild holy band [02:47.04]Playing jazz that was outrageous [02:50.92]That invoked the days of rapture [02:54.37]When our love was still young and contagious [03:00.58]Keep the river on your right [03:04.58]And the highway at your shoulder [03:08.43]And the front line in your sights  pioneer [03:15.68]Keep your eye on the road [03:20.88]Remember what you told her [03:23.56]This is all in code  my dear [03:31.81]In a dim-lit motel room [03:35.15]Two sad lovers were discoursing [03:39.53]On the dignity of exile [03:43.40]And the merits of divorcing [03:47.21]She said all certainty is gone [03:51.22]But he leapt up  still denying [03:54.79]Cried I won't believe the flame I lit [03:58.86]Is dead or even dying [04:04.55]She left him drooling in the dust [04:08.60]And with rucksack packed begun her [04:13.05]Bitter journey to the border [04:15.86]Which is where I wooed and won her [04:20.21]She was Aphrodite  Helen  Thetis [04:24.85]Eve among the satyrs [04:27.85]She was Venus in a v-neck sweater [04:31.80]She was all that ever mattered [04:37.68]Keep the river on your right [04:41.58]And the highway at your shoulder [04:45.52]And the front line in your sights  pioneer [04:52.74]Keep your eye on the road [04:57.81]Remember what you told her [05:00.55]This is all in code  my dear [05:08.65]Like Dean Moriarty's ghost [05:12.09]I came in quest of secret knowledge [05:16.35]In the winter of my journey [05:19.93]To a crumbling Druid college [05:24.03]There I read the books of lore [05:28.07]And contemplated in seclusion [05:31.64]But I took my leave embittered [05:35.70]Still in love with my illusions [05:41.18]In the drizzling Irish rain [05:45.15]As a tender dawn was breaking [05:48.99]In a doorway I stood spellbound by [05:52.67]The ancient music they were making [05:56.43]I took my breakfast with the Gods [06:00.88]On a blushing summer morning [06:04.37]Till a wind blew them all away [06:08.16]I had misread every warning [06:13.68]Keep the river on your right [06:17.58]And the highway at your shoulder [06:21.35]And the front line in your sights  pioneer [06:28.45]Keep your eye on the road [06:33.54]Remember what you told her [06:36.21]This is all in code  my dear [06:44.39]Under cold electric light [06:48.20]I watch the scenes mutating [06:52.05]Like an old time frontier ballad [06:55.81]Or a carousel rotating [06:59.58]As if in a moment from a film [07:03.99]With astonishing precision [07:07.68]The camera zooms in close [07:11.20]And a figure comes into vision [07:15.09]I'm in Tokyo  it's dawn [07:19.13]And it's raining hallelujahs [07:22.48]Down the bright-lit neon canyons [07:25.81]Along the sidewalks of Shibuya [07:30.48]I'm trying to take a stance [07:34.28]And rise above my contradictions [07:37.88]But I'm just a bunch of words in pants [07:41.96]And most of those are fiction [07:47.35]Keep the river on your right [07:51.20]And the highway at your shoulder [07:55.10]And the front line in your sights  pioneer [08:02.10]Keep your eye on the road [08:07.25]Remember what you told her [08:09.88]This is all in code  my dear [08:17.96]Keep the river on your right [08:21.82]And the highway at your shoulder [08:25.54]And the front line in your sights  pioneer [08:32.72]Keep your eye on the road [08:37.61]Remember what you told her [08:40.26]This is all in code  my dear