《Dropping The Torch》歌词

[00:00:00] Dropping The Torch - Peter Hammill

[00:00:00] We play games

[00:00:08] And every move

[00:00:12] Is noted down

[00:00:16] As a subsequent 'cause

[00:00:24] And effectively chains our freedom

[00:00:34] And will to live

[00:00:40] We settle in to simple

[00:00:46] Survival

[00:00:54] Hanging on our pleasures

[00:00:59] Grimly we must never let them go

[00:01:06] Our prison walls

[00:01:11] Are slowly built

[00:01:17] Stone by stone and day by day

[00:01:29] No provision for escape

[00:01:34] Entombed alive in safety

[00:01:37] And decay

[00:01:42] Time sets around us

[00:01:46] In killing frames

[00:01:49] Black border round our names

[00:01:52] Our fingers lose their grip

[00:01:56] And the torch slips

[00:02:02] The enemy

[00:02:08] For everyone

[00:02:12] Is everyone

[00:02:18] Inside

[00:02:23] I feel the hand of security

[00:02:27] Creep on me

[00:02:31] With ice cold fingers

[00:02:37] And crush my flower of freedom

[00:02:48] I've lost the course of my adventure

[00:02:54] All the things I'd meant to do

[00:02:57] Are lost

[00:03:02] There is only one flame each

[00:03:06] To keep alive

[00:03:08] In the wind

[00:03:12] But finally we snuff them out

[00:03:16] All by ourselves

[00:03:22] We set traps

[00:03:29] And in the end

[00:03:33] Fall into our own snares

[00:03:43] And have nowhere to go

[00:03:50] Time ever moves more slowly

[00:03:57] Life gets more lonely

[00:04:00] And less

[00:04:04] Real