《Darby’s Castle》歌词

[00:00:08] See the ruins on the hill where the smoke is hanging still

[00:00:17] Like an echo of an age long forgotten

[00:00:24] There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones

[00:00:33] And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten

[00:00:41] Cecil Darby loved his wife and he labored all his life

[00:00:50] To provide her with material possessions

[00:00:57] And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone

[00:01:06] And the building soon became his sole obsession

[00:01:14] Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised

[00:01:23] And the silhouette was seen for miles around

[00:01:31] And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky

[00:01:40] But it only took one night to bring it down

[00:01:48] When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground

[00:01:56] Though they shared the common bed there was precious little said

[00:02:05] In the moments that were set aside for sleeping

[00:02:12] For his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build

[00:02:21] And he never heard young Helen Darby weeping

[00:02:32] Then one night he heard the sound and as he laid his pencil down

[00:02:39] He traced it to her door and turned the handle

[00:02:46] And the pale light of the moon through the window of her room

[00:02:54] Split the shadows where two bodies lay in tangle

[00:03:14] Oh it took three hundred days