《A Man for All Seasons》歌词

[00:00:00] A Man For All Seasons - Al Stewart

[00:00:23] What if you reached the age of reason

[00:00:28] Only to find there was no reprieve

[00:00:32] Would you still be a man for all seasons

[00:00:37] Or would you just have to leave

[00:00:41] We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty

[00:00:46] Not turning to see how we've come

[00:00:50] And peer down my highway from here to eternity

[00:00:55] And reach out for love on the run

[00:01:00] While the man for all seasons is lost behind the sun

[00:01:24] Henry Plantagenet still looks for someone

[00:01:28] To bring good news in his hour of doubt

[00:01:32] While Thomas More waits in the Tower of London

[00:01:37] Watching the sands running out

[00:01:41] And measures the hours out from here to oblivion

[00:01:46] In actions that can't be undone

[00:01:51] A sailor through darkness he scans the meridian

[00:01:55] And caught by the first rays of dawn

[00:02:00] The man for all seasons is lost beneath the storm

[00:02:13] And I should know by now I should know by now

[00:02:20] I hear them call it out all around

[00:02:27] Oh they go ah there's nothing to believe in

[00:02:37] Hear them ah just daydreams deceiving

[00:02:47] They'll just let you down

[00:04:02] So what if you reached the age of reason

[00:04:07] Only to find there was no reprieve

[00:04:11] Would you still be a man for all seasons

[00:04:16] Or would you just disbelieve

[00:04:20] We measure our gains out in luck and coincidence

[00:04:25] Lanterns to turn back the night

[00:04:29] And put our defeats down to chance or experience

[00:04:34] And try once again for the light

[00:04:38] Some wait for the waters of fortune to cover them

[00:04:43] Some just see the tides of ill chance rushing over them

[00:04:47] Some call on Jehovah some cry out to Allah

[00:04:52] Some wait for the boats that still row to Valhalla

[00:04:57] While you try to accept what fates are unfolding

[00:05:01] While some say they're sure where the blame should be falling

[00:05:06] You look 'round for maybe a chance of forestalling

[00:05:10] But too soon it's over and done

[00:05:15] And the man for all seasons is lost behind the sun