《Dress Rehearsal Rag(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:02] Dress Rehearsal Rag (LP Version) - Judy Collins

[00:00:06] Got up sometime in the afternoon

[00:00:10] And you didn't feel like much

[00:00:13] You said to yourself

[00:00:15] Where are you golden boy

[00:00:16] Where is your famous golden touch

[00:00:19] I thought you knew where

[00:00:22] All the elephants lie down

[00:00:26] I thought you were the crown prince

[00:00:29] Of all the wheels in Ivory town

[00:00:34] Look at your body now

[00:00:36] Where there's nothing much to say

[00:00:40] And a bitter voice in the mirror says

[00:00:43] Hey prince you need a shave

[00:00:47] Now if you can manage to get

[00:00:49] Your trembling fingers to behave

[00:00:53] Why don't you try unwrapping

[00:00:55] A stainless steel razor blade

[00:00:58] That's right it's come to this

[00:01:03] It's come to this

[00:01:07] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:01:15] And wasn't it a strange way down

[00:01:26] There's no hot water

[00:01:28] And the cold is running thin

[00:01:33] Well what do you expect

[00:01:35] From the kind of places you've been living in

[00:01:39] Don't drink from that cup

[00:01:41] It's all caked and cracked along the rim

[00:01:45] That's not the electric light my friend

[00:01:48] That is your vision that is dim

[00:01:52] Cover up your face with soap there

[00:01:56] Now you're Santa Claus

[00:01:59] And you've got an A for anyone

[00:02:01] Who will give you his applause

[00:02:06] I thought you were a racing man

[00:02:10] Ah but you couldn't take the pace

[00:02:13] That's a funeral in the mirror

[00:02:16] And it's stopping at your face

[00:02:19] That's right it's come to this

[00:02:23] It's come to this

[00:02:27] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:02:36] And wasn't it a strange way down

[00:02:45] Once there was a path

[00:02:48] And a girl with chestnut hair

[00:02:52] And you spent the summers

[00:02:54] Picking all the berries that grew there

[00:02:59] There were times she was a woman

[00:03:02] There were times she was a child

[00:03:06] As you held her in the shadows

[00:03:08] Where the raspberries grow wild

[00:03:12] And you climbed the highest mountains

[00:03:16] And you sang about the view

[00:03:19] And everywhere you went

[00:03:22] Love went along with you

[00:03:27] That's a hard one to remember

[00:03:30] It makes you clench your fist

[00:03:33] And the veins stand out like highways

[00:03:37] All along your wrist

[00:03:39] And yes it's come to this

[00:03:43] It's come to this

[00:03:47] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:03:56] Wasn't it a strange way down

[00:04:06] You can still find a job

[00:04:09] Go out and talk to a friend

[00:04:13] On the back of every magazine

[00:04:15] There are coupons you can send

[00:04:19] Why don't you join the Rosicrucians

[00:04:22] They will give you back your hope

[00:04:26] You can find your love in diagrams

[00:04:30] In a plain brown envelope

[00:04:33] But you've used up all your coupons

[00:04:37] Except the one that seems

[00:04:40] To be tattooed on your arm

[00:04:43] Along with several thousand dreams

[00:04:48] Now Santa Claus comes forward

[00:04:51] That's a razor in his mitt

[00:04:54] And he puts on his dark glasses

[00:04:58] And he shows you where to hit

[00:05:01] And then the cameras pan

[00:05:06] The stand in stuntman's

[00:05:10] Dress rehearsal rag