《Manuscript(2007 - Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:13] Prince louis battenberg is burning the admiralty lights down low

[00:00:20] Silently sifting through papers sealed with a crown

[00:00:29] Admiral lord fisher is writing to churchill calling for more dreadnoughts

[00:00:36] The houses in hackney are all falling down

[00:00:41]

[00:00:48] And my grandmother sits on the beach in the days before the war

[00:00:55] Young girl writing her diary while time seems to pause

[00:01:03] Watching the waves as they come one by one to die on the shore

[00:01:12] Kissing the feet of england

[00:01:37] Oh the lights of saint petersburg come on as usual

[00:01:41] Although the air seems charged with a strangeness of late

[00:01:46] Yet there's nothing to touch

[00:01:52] And the tsar in his great winter palace

[00:01:55] Has called for the foreign news

[00:01:58] An archduke was shot down in bosnia but nothing much

[00:02:11] And my grandmother sits before the mirror

[00:02:15] In the days before the war

[00:02:18] Smiling a secret smile as she goes to the door

[00:02:26] And the young man rides off in his carriage homeward once more

[00:02:34] And the sun sets gently on england

[00:02:59] Ah the day we decided to drive down to worthing

[00:03:03] It rained and rained

[00:03:06] Giving us only a minute to stand by the sea

[00:03:14] And crunching my way through the shingles

[00:03:17] It seemed there was nothing changed

[00:03:20] Though the jetty was maybe more scarred that I'd known it to be

[00:03:33] And mandi and I stood and stared at the overcast sky

[00:03:40] Where ten years ago we had stood my grandfather and I

[00:03:50] And the waves still rushed in as they had the year that he died

[00:03:58] And it seemed that my lifetime was shrunken and lost in the tide

[00:04:04] As it rose and fell on the side of england

[00:04:35] Prince louis battenberg is burning the admiralty lights