《Night Dream (Live At Green Mill Jazz Club， Chicago/1999)》歌词

[00:00:44] Night Dream (Live)-Kurt Elling

[00:00:51] Lonely the roses of Avondaire /

[00:00:56] sing as though somebody still may care.

[00:01:10] They live only for the dream of living /

[00:01:26] so come follow where /

[00:01:31] they will take you there.

[00:01:34] I once was apprenticed /

[00:01:38] to a man who was living

[00:01:40] in the eye if the hurricane /

[00:01:43] to know despair,

[00:01:45] He knew all the dreams by heart /

[00:01:48] just like sailing in a boat of crystal silence /

[00:01:54] seeing visions /

[00:01:56] of the world /of life within a life.

[00:02:00] In a turning /

[00:02:01] like a burning /

[00:02:02] came turning /

[00:02:02] out of everything stirring /

[00:02:03] and what had begun before

[00:02:06] but all wrapped up /

[00:02:09] in one great godly becoming -

[00:02:12] Tumbling /

[00:02:13] and fumbling /

[00:02:14] and stumbling

[00:02:14] into bumbling /

[00:02:15] and rumbling along -

[00:02:16] whirling it /

[00:02:17] and swirling it /

[00:02:17] and twirling it /

[00:02:18] and hurling it /

[00:02:18] and overturning it /

[00:02:19] and burning it again.

[00:02:21] I shared a whirling dervish out on the side of a hill called metaphore vivace

[00:02:27] swinging en route to a nascent solar /

[00:02:31] with the scissored visored blizzard

[00:02:33] wizard /

[00:02:34] gizzarding planets and secrets within /

[00:02:35] like an avatar.

[00:02:36] While meanwhile /

[00:02:39] in turnstyling /

[00:02:40] and spinning over him

[00:02:45] spells bespeaking kingdoms in the dark

[00:02:47] calling me to yield /

[00:02:50] knighting me in a field /

[00:02:52] covered with armies

[00:02:53] and with princes. All were signing /

[00:02:56] cannons shining /

[00:02:57] pennants flying.

[00:03:00] And when he spoke to me he sang /

[00:03:03] and his words really rang -

[00:03:05] this child of the knowledge of the beauty of the night -

[00:03:08] he sang to me of masters passing on /

[00:03:11] of father after father after father

[00:03:13] climbing up into the lotus bloom /

[00:03:16] upon the tortoise's back

[00:03:18] and of grandfathers /

[00:03:20] who danced through their living a longer time ago.

[00:03:23] He showed me a palace in time /

[00:03:26] in which all the talismans

[00:03:27] from all the zeuses /

[00:03:27] swing upon a pendulum of secrets

[00:03:28] in a circle that remembers /

[00:03:30] and when asked a question will surrender

[00:03:32] every secret key to every hero's message /

[00:03:34] given to every heart in time

[00:03:35] but only known to but a few /or so it seems.

[00:03:38] When I asked of them /

[00:03:40] what shall I do /

[00:03:41] to see the god?

[00:03:43] They only said /

[00:03:45] the goldenrod /

[00:03:45] which grows inside of

[00:03:47] every secret dream you dream /

[00:03:48] while waiting for the god -

[00:03:50] it-s a symbol from the man in the fire.

[00:03:53] ling you the thing you desire

[00:03:55] is a garment that covers the riddle of everything secretly wished for

[00:03:58] and of the world of which you are an inheritor.

[00:06:36] Suddenly the chamber was flooded with light /

[00:06:41] hurling me skyward like a meteorite/

[00:06:46] When I fell to earth /

[00:06:48] I saw everything in a blur.

[00:06:52] I saw that time was accelerating in a curve

[00:06:55] and the palace in which I had stood /

[00:06:57] it was flowing, like lava, on acres of

[00:06:59] woodland

[00:07:00] like a pompei-an mountain volcano /

[00:07:02] making archipelago

[00:07:03] and destroying the planet /at fortissimo

[00:07:05] bulldozing everything down /

[00:07:08] to make room for what

[00:07:10] was a byzantine /

[00:07:11] a labarynthine /

[00:07:11] knotty mess of

[00:07:12] manifolding passageways /

[00:07:13] a tangle of confusion /

[00:07:14] where the walls made /

[00:07:15] an asylum of baroque.

[00:07:16] Like a joke /words were spoken

[00:07:18] to provoke me /and to toss me

[00:07:21] nude and empty /to the sea.

[00:07:24] But I would have none of it.

[00:07:28] I simply turned my back and walked out/

[00:07:31] of the dreamscape/

[00:07:32] into landscape /

[00:07:33] like a bedroom /where I heard that

[00:07:35] Lonely the roses of solitaire /

[00:07:41] sing as though somebody still may care.

[00:07:54] They live only for the dream of living /

[00:08:08] so come follow where they will take

[00:08:15] you there.

[00:08:17] Stay awake -no mistake -dance the dream awake -and awake."