《The Box》歌词

[00:00:00] Once upon a time in the land of hushabye

[00:00:03] Around about the wondrous days of yore

[00:00:06] I came across a sort of box

[00:00:07] Bound up with chains and locked with locks

[00:00:11] And labelled kindly do not touch it's war

[00:00:16] Decree was issued round about

[00:00:18] All with a flourish and a shout

[00:00:20] And a gaily coloured mascot tripping lightly on before

[00:00:23] Don't fiddle with this deadly box or break the chains or pick the locks

[00:00:28] And please don't ever play about with war

[00:00:33] Well the children understood

[00:00:35] Children happen to be good

[00:00:37] They were just as good around the time of yaw

[00:00:40] They didn't try to pick the locks or break into that deadly box

[00:00:43] They never tried to play about with war

[00:00:47] Mummies didn't either

[00:00:48] Sisters aunts grannies neither

[00:00:50] Cause they were quiet and sweet and pretty in those wondrous days of yaw

[00:00:56] Well very much the same as now not the ones to blame somehow

[00:01:02] For opening up that deadly box of war

[00:01:06] But someone did

[00:01:08] Someone battered in the lid

[00:01:11] And spilled the insides out across the floor

[00:01:14] A sort of bouncy bumpy ball made up of guns

[00:01:16] And flags and all the tears and horror

[00:01:19] And the death that goes with war

[00:01:22] It bounced right out

[00:01:23] And went bashing all about

[00:01:25] And bumping into everything and stored

[00:01:26] And what was sad

[00:01:28] And most unfair is that it didn't seem to care who much it bumped

[00:01:32] Or why or what or for

[00:01:37] It bumped the children mainly

[00:01:40] And I'll tell you this quite plainly

[00:01:42] It bumps them every day

[00:01:44] And more and more

[00:01:45] And leaves them dead and burned and dying

[00:01:47] Thousands of them sick and crying

[00:01:50] Cause when it bumps it's really very sore

[00:01:58] Now there's a way to stop the ball

[00:02:00] It isn't difficult at all

[00:02:01] All it takes is wisdom

[00:02:03] I'm absolutely sure that we could get it back into the box and

[00:02:08] Buy the chains and lock the locks

[00:02:11] No one seems to want to save the children any more

[00:02:16] Well that's the way it all appears

[00:02:20] Cause it's been bouncing round for years and years

[00:02:24] In spite of all the wisdom wiz since those wondrous days of yaw

[00:02:28] And the time they came across the box

[00:02:31] Bound up with chains and locked with locks

[00:02:35] And labelled kindly do not touch it's war

[00:02:41] The Box - John Denver