《Dress Rehearsal Rag》歌词

[00:00:00] Dress Rehearsal Rag - Leonard Cohen

[00:00:13] Four oclock in the afternoon

[00:00:15] And I didn't feel like very much

[00:00:20] I said to myself

[00:00:21] Where are you golden boy

[00:00:23] Where is your famous golden touch

[00:00:28] I thought you knew where

[00:00:30] All of the elephants lie down

[00:00:36] I thought you were the crown prince

[00:00:39] Of all the wheels in ivory town

[00:00:44] Just take a look at your body now

[00:00:48] There's nothing much to save

[00:00:51] And a bitter voice in the mirror cries

[00:00:54] Hey prince you need a shave

[00:00:59] Now if you can manage to get

[00:01:01] Your trembling fingers to behave

[00:01:05] Why don't you try unwrapping

[00:01:09] A stainless steel razor blade

[00:01:12] That's right it's come to this

[00:01:17] Yes it's come to this

[00:01:22] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:01:30] Wasn't it a strange way down

[00:01:37] There's no hot water

[00:01:40] And the cold is running thin

[00:01:44] Well what do you expect from

[00:01:46] The kind of places you've been living in

[00:01:51] Don't drink from that cup

[00:01:54] It's all caked and cracked along the rim

[00:01:58] That's not the electric light my friend

[00:02:02] That is your vision growing dim

[00:02:07] Cover up your face with soap there

[00:02:11] Now you're santa claus

[00:02:15] And you've got a gift for anyone

[00:02:17] Who will give you his applause

[00:02:22] I thought you were a racing man

[00:02:25] Ah but you couldn't take the pace

[00:02:29] That's a funeral in the mirror

[00:02:32] And it's stopping at your face

[00:02:35] That's right it's come to this

[00:02:40] Yes it's come to this

[00:02:44] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:02:52] Ah wasn't it a strange way down

[00:03:01] Once there was a path

[00:03:03] And a girl with chestnut hair

[00:03:07] And you passed the summers

[00:03:09] Picking all of the berries

[00:03:12] That grew there;

[00:03:14] There were times she was a woman

[00:03:18] Oh there were times

[00:03:19] She was just a child

[00:03:22] And you held her in the shadows

[00:03:26] Where the raspberries grow wild

[00:03:30] And you climbed the twilight mountains

[00:03:34] And you sang about the view

[00:03:38] And everywhere that you wandered

[00:03:40] Love seemed to go along with you

[00:03:46] That's a hard one to remember

[00:03:49] Yes it makes you clench your fist

[00:03:52] And then the veins

[00:03:54] Stand out like highways

[00:03:57] All along your wrist

[00:03:59] And yes it's come to this

[00:04:04] It's come to this

[00:04:08] And wasn't it a long way down

[00:04:16] Wasn't it a strange way down

[00:04:24] You can still find a job

[00:04:27] Go out and talk to a friend

[00:04:31] On the back of every magazine

[00:04:34] There are those coupons

[00:04:37] You can send

[00:04:38] Why don't you join the rosicrucians

[00:04:42] They can give you back your hope

[00:04:46] You can find your love with diagrams

[00:04:49] On a plain brown envelope

[00:04:54] But you've used up all your coupons

[00:04:58] Except the one that seems

[00:05:01] To be written on your wrist

[00:05:05] Along with several thousand dreams

[00:05:10] Now santa claus comes forward

[00:05:13] That's a razor in his mit;

[00:05:16] And he puts on his dark glasses

[00:05:20] And he shows you where to hit;

[00:05:23] And then the cameras pan

[00:05:28] The stand in stunt man

[00:05:33] Dress rehearsal rag

[00:05:38] It's just the dress rehearsal rag

[00:05:46] You know this dress rehearsal rag

[00:05:54] It's just a dress rehearsal rag