《Darby’s Castle》歌词

[00:00:00] Darby's Castle (Album Version) - Kris Kristofferson

[00:00:06] See the ruin on the hill where the smoke is hanging still

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

[00:00:19] There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones

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

[00:00:35] Cecil darby loved his wife and he laboured all his life

[00:00:41] To provide her with material possessions;

[00:00:48] And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone

[00:00:54] And the building soon became his sole obsession

[00:01:03] Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised

[00:01:10] And the silhouette was seen for miles around;

[00:01:16] And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky

[00:01:22] -But it only took one night to bring it down

[00:01:29] When darby's castle tumbled to the ground

[00:01:38] Though they shared a common bed there was precious little said

[00:01:44] In the moments that were set aside for sleeping:

[00:01:50] For his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build

[00:01:57] And he never heard young ellen darby weeping

[00:02:06] Then one night he heard a sound as he laid his pencil down

[00:02:12] And he traced it to her door and turned the handle;

[00:02:18] And the pale light of the moon through the window of the room

[00:02:24] Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled

[00:02:34] Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised

[00:02:40] And the silhouette was seen for miles around;

[00:02:46] And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky -

[00:02:52] But it only took one night to bring it down

[00:02:58] When darby's castle tumbled to the ground