《Four Blank Slates》歌词

[00:00:00] Four Blank Slates - David Rovics

[00:00:06] Beside an unused union hall

[00:00:09] And an abandoned factory

[00:00:12] By the allegheny river

[00:00:16] In another rust belt city

[00:00:19] You can see the well dressed families

[00:00:22] On memorial day

[00:00:26] Reading the names on the walls

[00:00:28] Of all those who went away

[00:00:32] Who went off in a ship

[00:00:36] And came back in a bag

[00:00:39] Packed into a coffin

[00:00:42] Wrapped up in a flag

[00:00:45] I saw a war on every stone

[00:00:48] I read a name on every line

[00:00:53] And when I reached the end

[00:00:55] A chill ran down my spine

[00:00:59] Four blank slates

[00:01:02] For battlefields yet unknown

[00:01:05] That soon some will call their own

[00:01:08] A wordless message in a frame

[00:01:12] Four blank slates

[00:01:15] For the dice that aren't yet tossed

[00:01:19] For the lives that aren't yet lost

[00:01:22] For a war without a name

[00:01:30] What will be written on that stone

[00:01:34] Will it be on persian soil

[00:01:37] Will they say it was for freedom

[00:01:41] Or venezuelan oil

[00:01:44] The only thing that's certain

[00:01:46] Is it will be across the sea

[00:01:51] And the new names on this rock

[00:01:53] Will have died in someone else's country

[00:01:58] Four blank slates

[00:02:01] For battlefields yet unknown

[00:02:04] That soon some will call their own

[00:02:08] A wordless message in a frame

[00:02:12] Four blank slates

[00:02:15] For the dice that aren't yet tossed

[00:02:18] For the lives that aren't yet lost

[00:02:22] For a war without a name

[00:02:31] How many other nations

[00:02:33] Are already planning their next war

[00:02:37] How many people know

[00:02:40] It'll be on someone else's shore

[00:02:45] Will there come a time

[00:02:47] When all good people are enraged

[00:02:51] To see a slate awaiting

[00:02:54] A war that's not yet waged

[00:02:58] Four blank slates

[00:03:01] For battlefields yet unknown

[00:03:04] That soon some will call their own

[00:03:08] A wordless message in a frame

[00:03:11] Four blank slates

[00:03:15] For the dice that aren't yet tossed

[00:03:18] For the lives that aren't yet lost

[00:03:22] For a war without a name

[00:03:29] For a war without a name