The Book of Numbers歌詞

[00:00.000] 作詞 : Sting/Dominic Miller
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Sting/Dominic Miller
[00:18.730] Bring me a glass of water
[00:23.383] To wash the dirt from my throat
[00:28.291] I've been wandering my whole life out there
[00:32.683] Help me out of my coat
[00:34.150]
[00:37.416] This water's as clear as crystal
[00:41.834] We should thank the Lord for that
[00:46.363] Sit you down and hear my story
[00:50.850] Find somewhere for my hat
[00:52.981]
[00:58.087] A barkeep takes a stranger's hat
[01:02.419] And finds a vacant hook
[01:06.584] Turns back towards the traveller
[01:10.448] His right hand on an old black book
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[01:15.577] The holy Book of Numbers
[01:20.490] I take it's something that you've read?
[01:24.966] The long search in the wilderness
[01:29.332] For a place to lay my head
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[01:36.751] So many parables in the scriptures
[01:41.011] But this one I'm doomed to tell
[01:45.371] For I stormed the gates of Heaven
[01:49.692] To find myself in Hell
[01:52.501]
[01:54.834] This is my lonely mission
[01:59.508] To wake the world up to its fate
[02:03.722] To dismantle my own invention
[02:08.578] For the hour is getting late
[02:11.523]
[02:15.592] This holy Book of Numbers
[02:19.766] As we walk through the shadow of death
[02:24.145] Tell me, are you listening, boy
[02:28.974] Or am I just wasting my breath?
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[02:33.553] There are fools in the courts of power
[02:37.908] While I've walked through this vale of bitter tears
[02:42.435] At the mercy of recording angels
[02:47.191] For three score and twenty-five years
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[02:54.326] The barkeep gets up from the table
[02:58.374] To fill up another glass
[03:02.972] He turns around to find an empty chair
[03:07.839] All that's left is the name in his hat