《Moondog Monologue》歌词

[00:00:03] No matter where I came from I say

[00:00:05] No matter where I go

[00:00:07] To me what matters is where I am on this day

[00:00:15] Let me identify myself now

[00:00:18] Songsters both and both clad in brown

[00:00:21] The hermit thrush and I dwell far off of town

[00:00:28] Death when you come to me may you come to me swiftly

[00:00:33] I would rather not linger

[00:00:35] Not linger

[00:00:42] Driving with Herr Doktor one day for the air

[00:00:45] He recircled a square before he taught me how to square the very same circle

[00:00:54] You are opportunists the worst way

[00:00:58] Therefore I pray let it pay for you to know me

[00:01:06] I do not dress as I do to attract attention

[00:01:10] I attract attention because I dress as I do

[00:01:19] You the vandal plunder the village as you will

[00:01:23] The earthworm will pillage you the vandal when you are under

[00:01:30] I would bow down before just one

[00:01:33] One who bows before none

[00:01:35] I should know who that one might be who could do that to me

[00:01:39] I am that one

[00:01:41] And I bow down before me

[00:01:47] Since the hunter is the hunted surely he knows what it is to listen in ecstatic dread to some oncoming hunter's tread

[00:01:58] Such and such is a star that filters through the starry blue alone

[00:02:03] A burning star turning in an orbit all of it's own

[00:02:07] Such and such is I

[00:02:14] Beasts always were great trailblazing engineers

[00:02:18] Modern engineering would do well to do as well today

[00:02:21] As well as beasts have done

[00:02:29] If on this rock I stand alone

[00:02:32] Loneliness will turn heel as he turns to stone

[00:02:42] Each today is yesterday's tomorrow which is now

[00:02:45] Now is all I have now is all I need

[00:02:50] Now is all I want

[00:02:55] Now

[00:02:56] Better I go when you would that I stay that I stay on

[00:03:01] Than stay when you would that I would go

[00:03:05] Better I go than stay

[00:03:11] Ebb and flow of the ocean

[00:03:13] Love and hate of emotion

[00:03:16] Nothing lasts is my refrain

[00:03:18] As the moon and my feelings wax and wane

[00:03:22] I remain calm

[00:03:29] If I was just everything until I fell then was just nothing

[00:03:35] Then worming up pathways I found with pleasure

[00:03:39] I was just something

[00:03:45] Standing at the door of my departure I observed

[00:03:48] That your eyes belie all that you have said

[00:03:51] For you are still in love with me

[00:03:59] Then when recognition comes

[00:04:02] You will take my muse take her to his bed at ease

[00:04:06] Have his will have his fill

[00:04:08] And strangle her

[00:04:17] My tiny butterfly butters my bread

[00:04:21] My briny flutter-by keeps me well fed

[00:04:24] Why should I mutter

[00:04:33] Stung by this last rebuff I rebound

[00:04:37] On the way back I hear me saying to myself

[00:04:40] Dwell in your shell

[00:04:47] One thing about life the It said

[00:04:50] It feeds upon itself over and over

[00:04:53] And of itself is fed

[00:05:02] Should I love you as I love myself

[00:05:05] Suppose I hate myself

[00:05:07] I would be as free to hate you too

[00:05:17] I am never quite educated never quite so

[00:05:20] But I am ever in the painful process of becoming so

[00:05:30] You remember me and my song

[00:05:33] Only such immortality strikes creative sparks from my soul

[00:05:37] Because of you

[00:05:46] Who could wear out their welcome there

[00:05:48] When there is no welcome there to wear out

[00:05:50] There is where it is here on Earth

[00:06:00] I would advise you not to generalize as a rule

[00:06:04] A fool to thee I have just uttered a generalization

[00:06:08] Ah me

[00:06:13] Down is up and so up is down

[00:06:16] Because the Earth is round

[00:06:18] There is no such a thing as up or down

[00:06:26] This one wish is ever so near to my heart

[00:06:29] But oh so far away from my tongue

[00:06:36] Sadness was so mixed with gladness that she wept for joy

[00:06:40] She was so sad

[00:06:42] Tear-filled eyes but enhanced the smile on her face

[00:06:46] She was so glad

[00:06:52] Think of all of the thoughts that I think

[00:06:55] They are naught to me compared to just one fleeting thought of you

[00:07:05] How could I fear for my last day

[00:07:08] When I am dying daily

[00:07:09] And have been since my first day

[00:07:18] Thus the clown wore cap and gown

[00:07:20] For she lived by degrees while she died by degrees

[00:07:24] With a frown

[00:07:33] Voices of spring were in chorus

[00:07:35] Each voice was singing a song

[00:07:38] I could not sing in that chorus until I wrote me a song

[00:07:42] I wrote my song and joined the throng

[00:07:52] Why besiege my liege still further

[00:07:54] For my wooing is turning Your Majesty's royal head

[00:07:58] And turning toward me

[00:08:05] Though I climbed up the highest mountain in view

[00:08:08] Yet content it was not mine

[00:08:11] For beyond a mountain still higher was glooming

[00:08:20] Now is that painful moment of parting we dreaded

[00:08:23] Saying goodbye is plural indemnity truly

[00:08:27] For having said hello