《Ballad of the Absent Mare(Longer Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] Ballad Of The Absent Mare - Leonard Cohen

[00:00:15] Say a prayer for the cowboy

[00:00:19] His mare's run away

[00:00:21] And he'll walk til he finds her

[00:00:25] His darling his stray

[00:00:27] But the river's in flood

[00:00:30] And the roads are awash

[00:00:33] And the bridges break up

[00:00:37] In the panic of loss

[00:00:44] And there's nothing to follow

[00:00:47] There's nowhere to go

[00:00:50] She's gone like the summer

[00:00:53] Gone like the snow

[00:00:55] And the crickets are breaking

[00:00:59] His heart with their song

[00:01:01] As the day caves in

[00:01:05] And the night is all wrong

[00:01:12] Did he dream was it she

[00:01:14] Who went galloping past

[00:01:17] And bent down the fern

[00:01:20] Broke open the grass

[00:01:23] And printed the mud with

[00:01:26] The iron and the gold

[00:01:28] That he nailed to her feet

[00:01:32] When he was the lord

[00:01:39] And although she goes grazing

[00:01:42] A minute away

[00:01:44] He tracks her all night

[00:01:47] He tracks her all day

[00:01:49] Oh blind to her presence

[00:01:52] Except to compare

[00:01:55] His injury here

[00:01:58] With her punishment there

[00:02:05] Then at home on a branch

[00:02:08] In the highest tree

[00:02:10] A songbird sings out

[00:02:13] So suddenly

[00:02:15] Ah the sun is warm

[00:02:18] And the soft winds ride

[00:02:20] On the willow trees

[00:02:24] By the river side

[00:02:31] Oh the world is sweet

[00:02:34] The world is wide

[00:02:36] And she's there where

[00:02:38] The light and the darkness divide

[00:02:42] And the steam's coming off her

[00:02:44] She's huge and she's shy

[00:02:47] And she steps on the moon

[00:02:51] When she paws at the sky

[00:02:57] And she comes to his hand

[00:03:00] But she's not really tame

[00:03:02] She longs to be lost

[00:03:05] He longs for the same

[00:03:08] And she'll bolt and she'll plunge

[00:03:10] Through the first open pass

[00:03:13] To roll and to feed

[00:03:16] In the sweet mountain grass

[00:03:23] Or she'll make a break

[00:03:25] For the high plateau

[00:03:28] Where there's nothing above

[00:03:31] And there's nothing below

[00:03:33] And it's time for the burden

[00:03:36] It's time for the whip

[00:03:38] Will she walk through the flame

[00:03:42] Can he shoot from the hip

[00:03:48] So he binds himself

[00:03:50] To the galloping mare

[00:03:53] And she binds herself

[00:03:56] To the rider there

[00:03:58] And there is no space

[00:04:01] But there's left and right

[00:04:03] And there is no time

[00:04:07] But there's day and night

[00:04:13] And he leans on her neck

[00:04:16] And he whispers low

[00:04:19] "Whither thou goest

[00:04:22] I will go"

[00:04:24] And they turn as one

[00:04:26] And they head for the plain

[00:04:29] No need for the whip

[00:04:31] Ah no need for the rein

[00:04:39] Now the clasp of this union

[00:04:42] Who fastens it tight

[00:04:44] Who snaps it asunder

[00:04:47] The very next night

[00:04:49] Some say the rider

[00:04:52] Some say the mare

[00:04:54] Or that love's like the smoke

[00:04:58] Beyond all repair

[00:05:04] But my darling says

[00:05:05] "Leonard just let it go by

[00:05:09] That old silhouette

[00:05:12] On the great western sky"

[00:05:14] So I pick out a tune

[00:05:16] And they move right along

[00:05:19] And they're gone like the smoke

[00:05:22] And they're gone like this song