《Simpler Machines》歌词

[00:00:00] Simpler Machines - Shriekback

[00:00:19] I wouldn't say I was an old fool yet

[00:00:23] But a time arrives in the lives of men

[00:00:28] When a kindly mist enshrouds the holy past

[00:00:34] We wouldn't make those mistakes again

[00:00:38] The backward glance always a price to pay

[00:00:42] For who has lived

[00:00:44] That time has not battered

[00:00:47] As we stand at the mercy of the sun

[00:00:53] No longer those whom the daylight flatters

[00:00:57] Sometimes the scent on a drifting breeze

[00:01:02] Draws us back to

[00:01:03] When all of our hands were clean

[00:01:06] When the world seemed comprehensible

[00:01:12] What we had with all those simpler machines

[00:01:17] And still we yearn

[00:01:18] For all those simpler machines

[00:01:32] Shell shocked by the speed of life

[00:01:35] And nothing broken we know how to mend

[00:01:41] Bewildered by such perpetual delights

[00:01:45] We want to feel the wheels

[00:01:47] And architraves again

[00:01:50] And preciously precariously

[00:01:55] Robust as porcelain figurines

[00:01:59] We take a bow and start to say goodnight

[00:02:05] Comrades forever with those simpler machines

[00:02:09] Locked into history with those simpler machines

[00:02:58] The scrapyard stars are glittering tonight

[00:03:03] The shards and smithereens

[00:03:07] No question it is a sentimental sight

[00:03:12] Our toys and tools all

[00:03:14] Of those simpler machines

[00:03:17] They'll break your heart alright

[00:03:19] Those simpler machines