Kris Kristofferson - Darby s Castle

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.09]Darby's Castle (达比的城堡) - Kris Kristofferson (克里斯·克里斯托佛森) [00:06.27]See the ruin on the hill [00:09.94]Where the smoke is hanging still [00:13.10]Like an echo of an age long forgotten [00:19.72]There's a story of a home [00:22.75]Crushed beneath those blackened stones [00:26.08]And a roof that fell before the beams were rotten [00:35.03]See saul darby loved his wife [00:38.83]And he laboured all his life [00:41.55]To provide her with material possessions [00:48.48]And he built for her a home [00:51.69]Of the finest wood and stone [00:54.70]And the building soon became his sole obsession [01:04.04]Oh it took three hundred days [01:07.33]For the timber to be raised [01:10.76]And the silhouette was seen for miles around [01:16.95]And the gables reached as high [01:19.97]As the eagles in the sky [01:23.29]But it only took one night to bring it down [01:29.53]When darby's castle tumbled to the ground [01:38.44]Though the shared a common bed [01:42.23]There was precious little said [01:45.41]In the moments that were set aside for sleeping [01:51.20]For his busy dreams were filled [01:54.71]With the rooms he'd yet to build [01:57.77]And he never heard young helen darby weeping [02:06.64]Then one night he heard a sound [02:11.13]As he laid his pencil down [02:13.51]And he traced it to her door and turned the handle [02:19.38]And the pale light of the moon [02:22.42]Through the windows of the room [02:25.42]Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled [02:34.89]Oh it took three hundred days [02:38.10]For the timber to be raised [02:41.49]And the silhouette was seen for miles around [02:47.18]And the gables reached as high [02:50.54]As the eagles in the sky [02:53.68]But it only took one night to bring it down [02:59.69]When darby's castle tumbled to the ground