《The Rock》歌词

[00:00:00] The Rock (岩石) - Harry Chapin

[00:00:15] The rock is gonna fall on us

[00:00:17] He woke with a start

[00:00:19] And he ran to his mother

[00:00:21] The fear dark in his heart

[00:00:22] And he told her of the vision

[00:00:24] That he was sure he'd seen

[00:00:26] She said go back to sleep son

[00:00:28] You're having a bad dream

[00:00:33] Silly child

[00:00:34] Everybody knows the rock leans over the town

[00:00:36] Silly child

[00:00:37] Everybody knows that

[00:00:39] It won't tumble to the ground

[00:00:40] Silly child

[00:00:41] Remember chicken little said

[00:00:43] The sky was falling down

[00:00:44] Silly

[00:00:44] Well nothing ever came of that

[00:00:46] The world still whirls around ahhh

[00:00:53] The rock is gonna fall on us

[00:00:55] He stood and told the class

[00:00:57] The professor put his chalk down

[00:00:59] And peered out through his glasses

[00:01:01] But he went on and said

[00:01:02] I've seen it high up on the hill

[00:01:04] If it doesn't fall this year

[00:01:07] Then very soon it will

[00:01:11] Crazy boy

[00:01:12] Everybody knows the rock leans over the town

[00:01:15] Silly child

[00:01:16] Everybody knows that

[00:01:17] It won't tumble to the ground

[00:01:19] We've more important studies

[00:01:20] Than your fantasies and fears

[00:01:22] Crazy boy

[00:01:23] You know that rock's been perched up

[00:01:25] There for a hundred thousand years yee

[00:01:32] The rock is gonna fall on us

[00:01:33] He told the magistrates

[00:01:35] I believe that we can stop it

[00:01:37] But the time is getting late

[00:01:38] You see I've done all the research

[00:01:41] My plans are all complete

[00:01:43] He was showing them contingencies

[00:01:45] When they showed him to the street

[00:01:49] Just a madman

[00:01:50] Everybody knows

[00:01:51] The rock leans over the town

[00:01:53] Just a

[00:01:53] Everybody knows

[00:01:55] That it won't tumble to the ground

[00:01:57] Just a

[00:01:57] Everybody knows

[00:01:58] Of those who say the end is near

[00:02:01] Everybody knows

[00:02:01] That life goes on as usual around here yee

[00:02:13] He went up on the mountain

[00:02:15] Beside the giant stone

[00:02:17] They knew he was insane

[00:02:19] So they left him all alone

[00:02:21] He'd given up enlisting help for

[00:02:23] There was no one else

[00:02:25] He spent his days devising ways

[00:02:27] To stop the rock himself

[00:02:31] One night while he was working

[00:02:32] Building braces on the ledge

[00:02:34] The ground began to rumble

[00:02:36] The rock trembled on the edge

[00:02:44] The rock is gonna fall on us

[00:02:46] Run or you'll all be crushed

[00:02:48] And indeed the rock was moving

[00:02:50] Crumbling all to dust

[00:02:51] He ran under it with one last hope

[00:02:53] That he could add a prop

[00:02:55] And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop

[00:03:02] The people ran into the street

[00:03:04] But by then all was still

[00:03:06] The rock seemed where it always was

[00:03:08] Or where it always will be

[00:03:10] When someone asked

[00:03:11] Where he had gone they said

[00:03:12] Oh he was daft

[00:03:14] Who cares about that crazy fool

[00:03:16] And then they'd start to laugh

[00:03:21] But high up on the mountain

[00:03:23] When the wind is hitting it

[00:03:25] If you're watching very closely

[00:03:28] The rock slips a little bit