《The Man He Was》歌词

[00:00:00] The Man He Was - Emitt Rhodes

[00:00:16] In a village in the woods they plant

[00:00:18] A tree for every newborn babe

[00:00:21] So they sowed a seed for a child

[00:00:23] Named John and they watched it day by day

[00:00:27] The tree it grew in a very strange way as twisted as a knot

[00:00:32] And the child he grew in the very

[00:00:35] Same way and never would his parents have thought

[00:00:40] The lad was bright and he learned

[00:00:42] To read as well as he could talk

[00:00:45] But his limbs were as twisted as the

[00:00:48] Tree and never would he walk

[00:00:51] People would come to stop and stare

[00:00:54] And you could hear them say

[00:00:57] It doesn't seem to me to be

[00:00:59] Quite fair and then be on their way

[00:01:10] Sing a song of joy lift your hearts in song

[00:01:16] For a newborn boy for a life that's long

[00:01:23] For a life that's long

[00:01:28] Now he loved the tree even

[00:01:30] Though it was as twisted as himself

[00:01:34] For somewhere deep inside his soul he thought of nothing else

[00:01:40] And the boy he grew

[00:01:41] Did the best he could but his limbs remained the same

[00:01:46] Well whoever listens who will

[00:01:48] Understand someone who is lame

[00:01:53] Some came to cry and some

[00:01:55] Came to laugh the day he passed away

[00:01:58] He's really not dead

[00:02:00] He's just taking a nap I heard somebody say

[00:02:04] I can't explain the tree

[00:02:06] Had died it withered without love

[00:02:10] But a stump remains to remind us of the man that he was

[00:02:23] Sing a song of death sing a song of peace

[00:02:29] Sing a song of rest and a song of relief

[00:02:36] Till the end of time

[00:02:41] Till the end of time

[00:02:45] Till the end of time