歌曲 | A Boy In Darkness |
歌手 | Big Big Train |
专辑 | English Electric (Part One) |
下载 | Image LRC TXT |
Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842 | |
Extract from Sub Commissioner’s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries. | |
“His name is Godfrey Fletcher | |
Eleven years old | |
Worked these pits for nearly three years | |
Does not know the alphabet | |
Cannot read in the least” | |
The pit shall keep him body and soul | |
But better that than going to school | |
Or ploughing the field | |
Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist’s sermon down here | |
In the awesome stillness | |
of the deep black | |
A Boy in Darkness | |
The seam they work is more than a yard | |
The headway here is nearly four feet | |
He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind | |
Deep down here in the dry and the heat | |
A Boy in Darkness | |
Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time | |
Part 3: Present Times | |
Once upon a time | |
A secret shared | |
Threatened not to breathe a word | |
To a living soul | |
Especially mother... | |
He was just a boy | |
But even though | |
It wasn’t the way it’s supposed to go | |
Needed a father | |
Not this hunter | |
To speak of the unspeakable | |
Takes guts and nerve | |
It’s going to disturb | |
He can’t bring himself to say the words | |
Misplaced blind faith | |
In church and state | |
Tied up in too much red tape | |
If help comes, pray not too late | |
We face ourselves | |
Look long and hard | |
Make the difference | |
A safer place | |
But most of all | |
Don’t be afraid | |
To shine | |
Light | |
Into the dark | |
A Boy in Darkness |
Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842 | |
Extract from Sub Commissioner' s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries. | |
" His name is Godfrey Fletcher | |
Eleven years old | |
Worked these pits for nearly three years | |
Does not know the alphabet | |
Cannot read in the least" | |
The pit shall keep him body and soul | |
But better that than going to school | |
Or ploughing the field | |
Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist' s sermon down here | |
In the awesome stillness | |
of the deep black | |
A Boy in Darkness | |
The seam they work is more than a yard | |
The headway here is nearly four feet | |
He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind | |
Deep down here in the dry and the heat | |
A Boy in Darkness | |
Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time | |
Part 3: Present Times | |
Once upon a time | |
A secret shared | |
Threatened not to breathe a word | |
To a living soul | |
Especially mother... | |
He was just a boy | |
But even though | |
It wasn' t the way it' s supposed to go | |
Needed a father | |
Not this hunter | |
To speak of the unspeakable | |
Takes guts and nerve | |
It' s going to disturb | |
He can' t bring himself to say the words | |
Misplaced blind faith | |
In church and state | |
Tied up in too much red tape | |
If help comes, pray not too late | |
We face ourselves | |
Look long and hard | |
Make the difference | |
A safer place | |
But most of all | |
Don' t be afraid | |
To shine | |
Light | |
Into the dark | |
A Boy in Darkness |
Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842 | |
Extract from Sub Commissioner' s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries. | |
" His name is Godfrey Fletcher | |
Eleven years old | |
Worked these pits for nearly three years | |
Does not know the alphabet | |
Cannot read in the least" | |
The pit shall keep him body and soul | |
But better that than going to school | |
Or ploughing the field | |
Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist' s sermon down here | |
In the awesome stillness | |
of the deep black | |
A Boy in Darkness | |
The seam they work is more than a yard | |
The headway here is nearly four feet | |
He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind | |
Deep down here in the dry and the heat | |
A Boy in Darkness | |
Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time | |
Part 3: Present Times | |
Once upon a time | |
A secret shared | |
Threatened not to breathe a word | |
To a living soul | |
Especially mother... | |
He was just a boy | |
But even though | |
It wasn' t the way it' s supposed to go | |
Needed a father | |
Not this hunter | |
To speak of the unspeakable | |
Takes guts and nerve | |
It' s going to disturb | |
He can' t bring himself to say the words | |
Misplaced blind faith | |
In church and state | |
Tied up in too much red tape | |
If help comes, pray not too late | |
We face ourselves | |
Look long and hard | |
Make the difference | |
A safer place | |
But most of all | |
Don' t be afraid | |
To shine | |
Light | |
Into the dark | |
A Boy in Darkness |