《Dress Rehearsal Rag》歌词

[00:00:00] Dress Rehearsal Rag - Leonard Cohen

[00:00:01] Written by：Leonard Cohen

[00:00:08] I get som time in the afternoon

[00:00:11] And I didn't feel like much

[00:00:16] I said to myself where are you golden boy

[00:00:19] Where is your famous golden touch

[00:00:25] I thought you knew where

[00:00:26] All of the elephants lie down

[00:00:32] I thought you were the crown prince

[00:00:35] Of all the wheels in ivory town

[00:00:40] Look at your body now

[00:00:44] There's nothing much to save

[00:00:48] And a bitter voice in the mirror cries

[00:00:50] Hey prince you need a shave

[00:00:56] Now if you can manage to get

[00:00:58] Your trembling fingers to behave

[00:01:04] Why don't you try unwrapping

[00:01:06] A stainless steel razor blade

[00:01:10] That's right it's come to this

[00:01:14] Yes it's come to this

[00:01:18] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:01:26] Wasn't it a strange way down

[00:01:35] There's no hot water

[00:01:38] And the cold is running thin

[00:01:43] Well what do you expect from

[00:01:44] The kind of places you've been living in

[00:01:51] Don't drink from that cup

[00:01:52] It's all caked and cracked along the rim

[00:01:58] That's not the electric light my friend

[00:02:01] That is your vision growing dim

[00:02:06] Cover up your face with soap there

[00:02:10] Now you're Santa Claus

[00:02:13] And you've got a gift for anyone

[00:02:17] Who will give you his applause

[00:02:22] I thought you were a racing man

[00:02:25] Ah but you couldn't take the pace

[00:02:28] That's a funeral in the mirror

[00:02:32] And it's stopping at your face

[00:02:35] That's right it's come to this

[00:02:40] Yes it's come to this

[00:02:44] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:02:52] Ah wasn't it a strange way down

[00:03:00] Once there was a path

[00:03:03] And a girl with chestnut hair

[00:03:07] And you passed the summers

[00:03:09] Picking all of the berries that grew there

[00:03:14] There were times she was a woman

[00:03:18] Oh there were times she was just a child

[00:03:22] And you held her in the shadows

[00:03:26] Where the raspberries grow wild

[00:03:29] And you climbed the twilight mountains

[00:03:33] And you sang about the view

[00:03:37] And everywhere that you wandered

[00:03:40] Love seemed to go along with you

[00:03:45] That's a hard one to remember

[00:03:50] Yes it makes you clench your fist

[00:03:51] And then the veins stand out like highways

[00:03:57] All along your wrist

[00:03:59] And no it's come to this

[00:04:04] Yes it's come to this

[00:04:08] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:04:15] Wasn't it a strange way down

[00:04:24] You can still find a job

[00:04:26] Go out and talk to a friend

[00:04:32] On the back of every magazine

[00:04:33] There are those coupons you can send

[00:04:39] Why don't you join the rosicrucians

[00:04:42] They will give you back your hope

[00:04:46] You can find your love with diagrams

[00:04:49] On a plain brown envelope

[00:04:54] But you've used up all your coupons

[00:04:57] Except the one that seems

[00:05:01] To be written on your wrist

[00:05:05] Along with several thousand dreams

[00:05:09] Now Santa Claus comes forward

[00:05:13] That's a razor in his mit

[00:05:16] And he puts on his dark glasses

[00:05:20] And he shows you where to hit

[00:05:23] And then the cameras pan

[00:05:28] The stand in stunt man

[00:05:32] Dress rehearsal rag

[00:05:40] It's dress rehearsal rag