《Golden Promises》歌词

[00:00:00] Golden Promises - Peter Hammill

[00:00:12] Besieged in the battlements of babylon

[00:00:17] Still looking for a hat peg you can hang your

[00:00:21] Head upon

[00:00:23] Now you've found a place you think is avalon

[00:00:28] You can talk to anyone here

[00:00:32] You can throw your arms around your nearest neighbour

[00:00:37] And the smiling ones'll tell you that you've saved her

[00:00:41] That she's saved you

[00:00:43] They offer the golden promises

[00:00:48] The instantly divine

[00:00:53] You swallow the golden promises

[00:00:58] Hook sinker and line

[00:01:13] If you choose to throw your soul around the attitude

[00:01:18] Reasoning and independent thought go down the tube

[00:01:22] As you go slavering after every inane platitude

[00:01:28] How weak you find yourself here

[00:01:32] Do you really need to lose yourself completely

[00:01:38] How come you seem to rate it all so cheaply

[00:01:41] It's so weak kneed

[00:01:43] To go for the golden promises

[00:01:47] Mail order holy vows

[00:01:52] You go for the golden promises

[00:01:56] I think you really ought to know better by now

[00:02:02] So I do my best and I do my nut

[00:02:07] I try to explain all these angles

[00:02:11] But you turn away

[00:02:15] Oh now you're looking in the white of my eyes

[00:02:19] And you know what I'm going to say

[00:02:22] Don't go for the golden promises

[00:02:27] Don't go for the easy way

[00:02:32] It's right here on the doorstep

[00:02:38] Fool's gold

[00:02:40] Don't throw your life

[00:02:42] Away