《Notes To The Future》歌词

[00:00:00] Notes To The Future - Patti Smith (帕蒂·史密斯)

[00:00:00] Listen my children and you shall hear

[00:00:04] The sound of your own steps

[00:00:06] The sound of your hereafter

[00:00:09] Memory awaits and turns to greet you

[00:00:12] Draping its banner across your wrists

[00:00:15] Wake up arms

[00:00:17] Delicate feet

[00:00:18] For as one to march the streets

[00:00:21] Each alone each part of another

[00:00:23] Your steps shall ring

[00:00:25] Shall raise the cloud

[00:00:27] And they that will hear will hear

[00:00:29] Will hear voice of the one

[00:00:31] And the one and the one

[00:00:33] As it has never been uttered before

[00:00:37] For something greater yet to come

[00:00:40] Then the hour of the prophets

[00:00:42] And their great cities

[00:00:43] For the people of Ninevah

[00:00:45] Fell to their knees

[00:00:47] Heeding the cry of Jonah

[00:00:49] United

[00:00:49] Covering themselves in sackcloth and ashes

[00:00:53] And called to their god

[00:00:55] And all their hearts were as one heart

[00:00:57] And all their voices were as one voice

[00:01:00] God heard them and his mind was moved

[00:01:04] Yet something greater will come to pass

[00:01:07] And who will call

[00:01:08] And what will they call

[00:01:10] Will they call to God

[00:01:12] The air

[00:01:12] The fowl

[00:01:13] It will not matter if the call is true

[00:01:16] They shall call and this is known

[00:01:19] One voice and each another

[00:01:21] Shall enter the dead the living flower

[00:01:24] Enter forms that we know not

[00:01:27] To be felt by sea

[00:01:28] By air

[00:01:29] By earth

[00:01:30] And shall be an elemental pledge

[00:01:33] This is our birthright

[00:01:35] This is our charge

[00:01:36] And we have given over to others

[00:01:38] And they have

[00:01:39] Not

[00:01:39] Done

[00:01:40] Well

[00:01:40] And the forests mourn

[00:01:42] The leaves fall

[00:01:44] Swaddling babes watch and wonder

[00:01:46] As the fathers of our spirit nations

[00:01:49] Dance in the street in celebration

[00:01:52] As the mountains turn pale from

[00:01:54] Their nuclear hand

[00:01:55] And they have

[00:01:56] Not

[00:01:56] Done

[00:01:57] Well

[00:01:57] Now my children

[00:02:00] You must overturn the tables

[00:02:02] Deliver the future from material rule

[00:02:06] For only one rule should be considered

[00:02:08] The eleventh commandment

[00:02:10] To love one another

[00:02:12] And this is our covenant across your wrist

[00:02:15] This offering is yours

[00:02:18] To adorn adore

[00:02:20] To bury

[00:02:20] To burn

[00:02:21] Upon a mound

[00:02:23] To hail

[00:02:24] To set away

[00:02:25] It is merely a cloth

[00:02:27] Merely our colors

[00:02:29] Invested with the blood of the people

[00:02:31] All their hopes and dreams

[00:02:33] Our flag

[00:02:35] It has its excellence

[00:02:37] Yet it is nothing

[00:02:39] It shall not be a tyranny above us

[00:02:42] Nor should god

[00:02:43] Nor love

[00:02:44] Nor nature

[00:02:45] Yet we hold as our pleasure this tender honor

[00:02:48] That we acknowledge the individual

[00:02:50] And the common ground formed

[00:02:53] And if our cloth be raised and lowered

[00:02:56] Half mast

[00:02:57] What does it tell us

[00:02:58] That an individual has passed

[00:03:01] Is saluted

[00:03:02] And mourned by his countrymen

[00:03:05] This ritual extends to us all

[00:03:08] For we are all the individual

[00:03:10] No unknown

[00:03:12] No insignificant one

[00:03:15] Nor insignificant labor

[00:03:17] Nor insignificant act of charity

[00:03:20] Each has a story to be told and retold

[00:03:23] Which shall be a glowing thread

[00:03:26] In the fabric of Man

[00:03:27] And the children shall march

[00:03:29] And bring the colors forward

[00:03:32] Investing within them

[00:03:34] The redeeming blood

[00:03:36] Of their revolutionary hearts