《Darby’s Castle》歌词

[00:00:00] Darby's Castle - Steve Hofmeyr

[00:00:00] Written by：Kristoffer Kristofferson

[00:00:06] See the ruin on the hill

[00:00:10] Where the smoke is hanging still

[00:00:13] Like an echo of an age long forgotten

[00:00:20] There's a story of a home

[00:00:23] Crushed beneath those blackened stones

[00:00:26] And a roof that fell before the beams were rotten

[00:00:36] See Saul Darby loved his wife

[00:00:40] And he labored all his life

[00:00:43] To provide her with material possessions

[00:00:50] And he built for her a home

[00:00:53] Of the finest wood and stone

[00:00:56] And the building soon became his sole obsession

[00:01:06] Oh it took three hundred days

[00:01:09] For the timber to be raised

[00:01:13] And the silhouette was seen for miles around

[00:01:19] And the gables reached as high

[00:01:22] As the eagles in the sky

[00:01:26] But it only took one night to bring it down

[00:01:33] When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground

[00:01:43] Though the shared a common bed

[00:01:46] There was precious little said

[00:01:49] In the moments that were set aside for sleeping

[00:01:56] For his busy dreams were filled

[00:01:59] With the rooms he'd yet to build

[00:02:03] He never heard young Helen Darby weeping

[00:02:12] Then one night he heard a sound

[00:02:17] As he laid his pencil down

[00:02:19] And he traced it to her door and turned the handle

[00:02:26] And the pale light of the moon

[00:02:29] Through the windows of the room

[00:02:32] Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled

[00:02:42] Oh it took three hundred days

[00:02:45] For the timber to be raised

[00:02:49] And the silhouette was seen for miles around

[00:02:55] And the gables reached as high

[00:02:59] As the eagles in the sky

[00:03:02] But it only took one night to bring it down

[00:03:09] When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground