《The Greatest Living Englishman》歌词

[00:00:01] The Greatest Living Englishman - David Sylvian

[00:02:26] Here we are then, here we are

[00:02:34] Notes from a suicide

[00:02:44] And he will never ever be

[00:02:49] The Greatest Living Englishman

[00:03:09] It's such a melancholy blue

[00:03:15] Or a grey of no significance

[00:03:21] Plastic coated surfaces

[00:03:27] A space to place his suitcase

[00:03:32] As it's passed from A to B

[00:03:59] But it's such a melancholy blue

[00:04:05] The curtains round the bed are drawn

[00:04:10] Broadcast voices from the ward

[00:04:15] The humming of machines hurt

[00:04:21] But there are distances between

[00:04:28] Yes there are distances between

[00:04:49] His aspirations visited him nightly

[00:04:56] And amounted to so little

[00:05:01] Too much self in his writing

[00:05:07] Now he will never, ever be

[00:05:13] The Greatest Living Englishman

[00:05:31] The engine shifts into second gear

[00:05:36] They're all aboard, accounted for

[00:05:40] It's a journey he must make alone

[00:05:46] The black sheep boy is leaving home

[00:05:56] It's been rehearsed a thousand times or more

[00:06:02] He's well prepared of that he's sure

[00:06:10] But still it's such a melancholy blue

[00:06:17] As he erased a page of history

[00:06:23] Much as he'd intended to

[00:06:53] He wouldn't speak or show you he was happy

[00:06:59] Though you'd meet him with your eyes

[00:07:05] There was a wall that always stood between you

[00:07:12] He'd shut himself outside

[00:07:27] And the love that he engendered

[00:07:31] Would never be enough

[00:07:35] For him to feel alive

[00:07:39] Warm and tender

[00:07:44] He'd shut himself outside

[00:08:08] Not a fake or a sham

[00:08:11] But dug in deep and fighting

[00:08:16] The world could not embrace a man

[00:08:21] With so much self in his writing

[00:08:43] And he was never gonna be

[00:08:49] The Greatest Living Englishman

[00:08:57] He had ideas above his station

[00:09:03] Minor virtues go unmentioned

[00:09:15] Little England you fit like a straightjacket

[00:09:20] Hemmed by the genius of others

[00:09:26] He said

[00:09:28] To conquer the world is not to the trace

[00:09:35] Remove even the shadow of the memory of your face

[00:09:47] A grey of no significance