《Wartime Prayers》歌词

[00:00:01] Wartime Prayers - Paul Simon

[00:00:21] Prayers offered in times of peace

[00:00:27] Are silent conversations

[00:00:32] Appeals for love or love's release

[00:00:42] In private invocations

[00:00:48] But all that is changed now

[00:00:55] Gone like a memory from the day before the fires

[00:01:05] People hungry for the voice of God

[00:01:10] Hear lunatics and liars

[00:01:18] Wartime prayers

[00:01:20] Wartime prayers

[00:01:24] In every language spoken

[00:01:30] For every family scattered and broken

[00:01:53] Because you cannot walk with the holy

[00:01:57] If you're just a halfway decent man

[00:02:00] I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind

[00:02:04] With a genius marketing plan

[00:02:07] I'm trying to tap into some wisdom

[00:02:11] Even a little drop will do

[00:02:14] I want to rid my heart of envy

[00:02:18] And cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through

[00:02:31] Times are hard it's a hard time

[00:02:35] But everybody knows

[00:02:36] All about hard times the thing is

[00:02:41] What are you gonna do

[00:02:44] Well you cry and try to muscle through

[00:02:54] And try to rearrange your stuff

[00:02:58] But when the wounds are deep enough

[00:03:02] And it's all that we can bear

[00:03:06] We wrap ourselves in prayer

[00:03:20] Because you cannot walk with the holy

[00:03:23] If you're just a halfway decent man

[00:03:27] I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind

[00:03:31] With a genius marketing plan

[00:03:34] I'm trying to tap into some wisdom

[00:03:38] Even a little drop will do

[00:03:41] I want to rid my heart of envy

[00:03:46] And cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through

[00:03:58] A mother murmurs in twilight sleep

[00:04:05] And draws her babies closer

[00:04:12] With hush a byes for sleepy eyes

[00:04:19] And kisses on the shoulder

[00:04:26] To drive away despair

[00:04:34] She says a wartime prayer