《Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)》歌词

[00:00:00] Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For) - John Denver (约翰·丹佛)

[00:00:10] I am the son of a grassland farmer

[00:00:15] Western oklahoma nineteen forty three

[00:00:20] I always felt grateful to live

[00:00:24] In the land of the free

[00:00:30] I gave up my father to South Korea

[00:00:35] The mind of my brother to Vietnam

[00:00:41] Now there's a banker who says

[00:00:44] I must give up my land

[00:00:50] There are four generations

[00:00:53] Of blood

[00:00:54] In this topsoil

[00:00:56] Four generations of love

[00:00:59] On this farm

[00:01:02] Before I give up

[00:01:04] I would gladly

[00:01:05] Give up my right arm

[00:01:12] What are we making weapons for

[00:01:17] Why keep on feeding the war machine

[00:01:22] We take it right out of the mouths

[00:01:25] Of our babies

[00:01:27] Take it away from the hands

[00:01:29] Of the poor

[00:01:31] Tell me what are

[00:01:32] We making weapons for

[00:01:43] I had a son and my son was a soldier

[00:01:48] He was so like my father

[00:01:50] He was so much like me

[00:01:54] To be a good comrade was the best

[00:01:57] That he dreamed he could be

[00:02:04] He gave up his future to revolution

[00:02:09] His life to a battle

[00:02:11] That just can't be won

[00:02:15] For this is not living to live

[00:02:18] At the point of a gun

[00:02:24] I remember the nine hundred days

[00:02:28] Of Leningrad

[00:02:30] The sound of the dying

[00:02:32] The cut of the cold

[00:02:36] I remember the moments I prayed

[00:02:39] I would never grow old

[00:02:46] What are we making weapons for

[00:02:51] Why keep on feeding the war machine

[00:02:55] We take it right out of the mouths

[00:02:58] Of our babies

[00:03:00] Take it away from the hands of the poor

[00:03:04] Tell me what are we making weapons for

[00:03:16] For the first time in my life

[00:03:19] I feel like a prisoner

[00:03:21] A slave to the ways of the powers

[00:03:24] That be

[00:03:27] And I fear for my children as

[00:03:30] I fear for the for the future I see

[00:03:36] Tell me how can it be

[00:03:39] We're still fighting each other

[00:03:42] What does it take

[00:03:43] For a people to learn

[00:03:47] If our song is not sung as a chorus

[00:03:51] We surely will burn

[00:03:58] What are we making weapons for

[00:04:03] Why keep on feeding the war machine

[00:04:07] We take it right out

[00:04:09] Of the mouths of our babies

[00:04:12] Take it away from the hands

[00:04:15] Of the poor

[00:04:16] Tell me what are

[00:04:18] We making weapons for

[00:04:23] Have we forgotten

[00:04:27] All the lives that were given

[00:04:32] All the vows that were taken

[00:04:37] Saying never again

[00:04:42] Now for the first time

[00:04:47] This could be the last time

[00:04:52] If peace is our vision

[00:04:57] Let us begin

[00:05:00] Have we forgotten

[00:05:04] All the lives that were given

[00:05:09] All the vows that were taken

[00:05:14] Saying never again never again

[00:05:19] Now for the first time

[00:05:24] This could be the last time

[00:05:29] If peace is our vision

[00:05:35] Let us begin let us begin