《No Rope as Long as Time》歌词

[00:00:00] No Rope as Long as Time - Steve Skaith

[00:00:35] Old Afrikaner farmer

[00:00:37] On the terrace of his home

[00:00:41] Sits gently in his rocking chair

[00:00:44] Gazing at this land he owns

[00:00:47] There he sees his memories

[00:00:50] And there his past

[00:00:53] There he smiles his grim smile

[00:00:55] Strokes his gun

[00:00:56] Swears he'll make it last

[00:00:58] And someone brings the whisky

[00:01:01] Someone serves the meal

[00:01:04] Like the someone in the township

[00:01:07] In the mine and in the field

[00:01:10] And someone in the graveyard

[00:01:13] Someone with their tears

[00:01:16] There's someone who can't forget

[00:01:18] The freedom lost these 100 years

[00:01:21] Old man

[00:01:23] You can boost about

[00:01:24] The gun that's by your bed

[00:01:27] Old man

[00:01:29] You can tell me how you're good for

[00:01:31] All your kaffirs yet

[00:01:33] And the guns can fire

[00:01:34] And your prisons fill

[00:01:36] And you've yards of rope

[00:01:37] For hanging still

[00:01:39] But the guns can shoot

[00:01:40] And never hit the sky

[00:01:44] And there's no rope

[00:01:47] As long as time

[00:02:05] Mandela in the prison

[00:02:08] Steve Biko in the ground

[00:02:12] Sharpeville and Soweto voices

[00:02:15] Silenced till the end of time

[00:02:18] Freedom don't come easy

[00:02:20] Don't come bloodless

[00:02:21] Don't come fast

[00:02:23] But in the hearts of the countless people

[00:02:26] No pass law's gonna stop it pass

[00:02:28] Old man

[00:02:30] You can boost about

[00:02:32] The gun that's by your bed

[00:02:34] Old man

[00:02:36] You can tell me how you're good for

[00:02:38] All your kaffirs yet

[00:02:40] And the guns can fire

[00:02:42] And your prisons fill

[00:02:43] And you've yards of rope

[00:02:45] For hanging still

[00:02:46] But the guns can shoot

[00:02:48] And never hit the sky

[00:02:52] There's no rope

[00:02:54] As long as time

[00:03:02] Sometimes he talks of reasons

[00:03:04] Economy and cause

[00:03:07] Sometimes he'll even talk of changes

[00:03:10] Though he clasps the gun

[00:03:11] And talks of law

[00:03:13] Power ain't this old man's gift

[00:03:16] Freedom's no reform

[00:03:19] The old man chose this history

[00:03:21] And the history's stays a history wars

[00:03:27] Old man

[00:03:29] You can boost about

[00:03:30] The gun that's by your bed

[00:03:33] Old man

[00:03:34] You can tell me how you're good for

[00:03:37] All your kaffirs yet

[00:03:39] And the guns can fire

[00:03:40] And your prisons fill

[00:03:42] You've yards of rope

[00:03:43] For hanging still

[00:03:45] But the guns can shoot

[00:03:46] And never hit the sky

[00:03:52] And there's no rope

[00:03:54] As long as time