《Nightman》歌词

[00:00:00] Nightman - Peter Hammill

[00:00:15] At the dead of night I woke

[00:00:19] With the sense that my dreams were escaping

[00:00:25] All uncannily unspoken

[00:00:31] Like words at the tip of a foreign tongue

[00:00:49] As for language I have none

[00:00:53] To express quite what strangeness overwhelms me

[00:00:59] Something's changed and something tells me

[00:01:05] To be still in the roar of the distant stars

[00:01:14] The night's full of fire ice and water

[00:01:24] By day I'll have clay in my hands

[00:01:35] The book is open at a well thumb mark

[00:01:39] The odds are stacked that I'm facing

[00:01:44] Eyes grown accustomed to light and dark

[00:01:49] Can't catch the shadows they're chasing

[00:01:54] Open my heart to the vital spark

[00:01:59] A disordered rhythm is racing

[00:02:03] It's a dance macabre I'm tracing

[00:03:04] As the fire feeds the flame

[00:03:08] As the tongue finds expression in it's flickering

[00:03:14] Does each breath inform a name

[00:03:18] To be dispersed just as soon as it's exhaled

[00:03:23] Was it to myself I came

[00:03:27] Or to some other strange and parallel existence

[00:03:33] Will I ever see tomorrow

[00:03:40] To wake and begin it again

[00:03:50] Open the book at a well read page

[00:03:55] Hope triumphs over expectation

[00:03:59] Open the secrets of seer and sage

[00:04:04] In awein spired anticipation

[00:04:28] Open my mind in the body's cage

[00:04:32] Unchained in consecration

[00:04:37] Open my eyes to the wider stage

[00:04:41] The firestorm of liberation

[00:04:46] The night in conflagration

[00:04:54] The night in conflagration

[00:05:07] With a shiver down my spine

[00:05:11] I come back to the place where I started

[00:05:19] The sea of consciousness has parted

[00:05:27] But stranded is all that I feel for sure

[00:05:35] As nightsight declines into darkness

[00:05:45] By day there'll be clay in my hands

[00:05:56] I may feel the clay in my hands