The Greatest Living Englishman

歌曲 The Greatest Living Englishman
歌手 David Sylvian
专辑 Manafon

歌词

[02:26.49] Here we are then here we are
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[02:34.74] Notes from a suicide
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[02:44.18] And he will never ever be
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[02:49.79] The Greatest Living Englishman
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[03:09.79] It's such a melancholy blue
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[03:15.00] Or a grey of no significance
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[03:21.74] Plastic coated surfaces
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[03:27.25] A space to place his suitcase
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[03:32.53] As it's passed from A to B
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[03:59.69] But it's such a melancholy blue
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[04:05.13] The curtains round the bed are drawn
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[04:10.39] Broadcast voices from the ward
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[04:15.69] The humming of machines hurt
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[04:21.18] But there are distances between
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[04:28.88] Yes there are distances between
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[04:49.69] His aspirations visited him nightly
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[04:56.08] And amounted to so little
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[05:01.51] Too much self in his writing
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[05:07.56] Now he will never ever be
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[05:13.39] The Greatest Living Englishman
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[05:31.12] The engine shifts into second gear
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[05:36.02] They're all aboard accounted for
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[05:40.95] It's a journey he must make alone
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[05:46.36] The black sheep boy is leaving home
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[05:56.06] It's been rehearsed a thousand times or more
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[06:02.04] He's well prepared of that he's sure
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[06:10.30] But still it's such a melancholy blue
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[06:17.42] As he erased a page of history
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[06:23.22] Much as he'd intended to
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[06:53.22] He wouldn't speak or show you he was happy
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[06:59.44] Though you'd meet him with your eyes
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[07:05.22] There was a wall that always stood between you
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[07:12.61] He'd shut himself outside
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[07:27.05] And the love that he engendered
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[07:31.46] Would never be enough
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[07:35.37] For him to feel alive
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[07:39.19] Warm and tender
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[07:44.93] He'd shut himself outside
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[08:08.33] Not a fake or a sham
[08:11.20] But dug in deep and fighting
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[08:16.57] The world could not embrace a man
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[08:21.45] With so much self in his writing
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[08:43.64] And he was never gonna be
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[08:49.43] The Greatest Living Englishman
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[08:57.66] He had ideas above his station
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[09:03.89] Minor virtues go unmentioned
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[09:15.92] Little England you fit like a straightjacket
[09:20.26] Hemmed by the genius of others
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[09:26.17] He said
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[09:28.49] To conquer the world is not to the trace
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[09:35.01] Remove even the shadow of the memory of your face
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[09:47.96] A grey of no significance