《In The End(Kansas)(Boot Recovery)》歌词

[00:00:00] In The End (Kansas) - Peter Hammill

[00:01:12] I promise you I won't leave a clue:

[00:01:23] No tell-tale remark no print from my shoe

[00:01:34] Still a steady trail to the water's edge

[00:01:40] I will keep my pledge to the end;

[00:01:51] I intend to go free

[00:02:06] No more rushing around no more travelling chess;

[00:02:17] I guess I'd better sit down you know I do need the rest

[00:02:28] Yes it's time to resign with equanimity and placidity

[00:02:36] From the game

[00:02:41] I can't explain;

[00:02:44] I can't relate

[00:02:52] Have I done it all too late

[00:03:14] Now is the time for the commission to report;

[00:03:17] Till lately I thought: I'd been planted

[00:03:22] Trying hard to make it all come real

[00:03:25] Permission to feel is ungranted

[00:03:32] But now it's happening I'd like to keep it private if I can;

[00:03:38] Last words last look make a final stand

[00:03:42] Now my number's come up on the Pools

[00:03:45] Or let board Titanic for a cruise

[00:03:52] Now is the time to make my status clear

[00:03:55] Too late I fear and lonely

[00:04:00] As friends and enemies traverse the stage

[00:04:03] All in a rage disown me

[00:04:09] And all the pip-props shatter into dust about my ears;

[00:04:14] Memory and conscience hope and fear

[00:04:18] As I crawl out further on the limb

[00:04:22] Something tells me I am crawling in

[00:04:24] To unknown prophecies and lives

[00:04:32] The rainbow's end is hemmed around with knives

[00:05:04] As I stand on the boards and the stage lights grow dim

[00:05:17] Shall I go out of doors or shall I maybe go in

[00:05:31] Have I reached the point when I should take my cue

[00:05:37] And follow you and your signs

[00:05:43] I can't remember my line

[00:05:47] At the prompter cat calls

[00:05:51] And the cards all fall

[00:05:55] In the strike

[00:06:09] All the pages are thin all the corners are curled

[00:06:15] Does the starshine fall in through my window on the world

[00:06:22] Or am I living our (the seeds of doubt) a chronicle of revenge

[00:06:33] The willow bends

[00:06:36] As do my hands

[00:06:40] Do you understand

[00:06:45] And will you still be my friend in the end

[00:06:53] When my mouth falls slack

[00:06:59] And I can't summon up another tune

[00:07:04] Shall I then look back and say

[00:07:14] I did it all

[00:07:21] Too soon