《Train Time》歌词

[00:05:32] Traintime - Peter Hammill

[00:05:32] Along the track the wires are humming

[00:05:32] in bursts of code like far-off drums....

[00:05:32] Fathering the message:

[00:05:32] further up the line

[00:05:32] someone's shouting

[00:05:32] down the passage of time.

[00:05:32] The corridor restrains the window,

[00:05:32] no view without the eye within....

[00:05:32] bold upon the threshold

[00:05:32] but holding on the line

[00:05:32] we're shouting

[00:05:32] down the passage of time.

[00:05:32] Relatives speak on the phone, on the train,

[00:05:32] talking before they have thought to explain;

[00:05:32] Voices pitched wildly on tracks in the night

[00:05:32] can't pick the pace up -

[00:05:32] Oh let there be light!

[00:05:32] How light becomes the soul!

[00:05:32] You know yourself the centre of attention,

[00:05:32] You see yourself the locus of event...

[00:05:32] I'm sorry if it's painful quarrying the line,

[00:05:32] stage centre, shouting down the passage of time.

[00:05:32] The corridor retains it's shadows,

[00:05:32] it's secrets compartmentalised....

[00:05:32] damping down on ambience,

[00:05:32] damp the teeth and grind,

[00:05:32] shouting down the passage of time!

[00:05:32] What's there to see or make clear?

[00:05:32] What's there to know

[00:05:32] when the voice is right here?

[00:05:32] What's there to promise or vow?

[00:05:32] What's to believe when the time is right now?

[00:05:32] Relatives spoke on the phone, on the train,

[00:05:32] talking before they had sought to retain;

[00:05:32] Voices projected, spears in mid-flight,

[00:05:32] frozen forever...

[00:05:32] Oh let there be light