《The Second Hand(2006 Digital Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Second Hand (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill

[00:00:16] See the old man acting like a fool

[00:00:20] Yeah he's running from the ambulance

[00:00:24] When he was a youngster he broke all the rules –

[00:00:28] Now he says that was just accident

[00:00:41] Always had the feeling he was going to die young

[00:00:44] So now he feels repentant;

[00:00:48] But the judge was progressive and the jury was hung

[00:00:52] He got a suspended sentence

[00:00:56] So he ran from his future he ran from his past

[00:01:00] Yes he ran from the desert of the hour-glass

[00:01:04] But the sea of time is a rising flood

[00:01:07] And he's swamped by the wave

[00:01:14] His arms go limp by his side

[00:01:16] He only came for the ride

[00:01:22] He thought he'd hold back the tide

[00:01:24] Canute

[00:01:45] One eye on the main chance and one eye on the clock

[00:01:49] Oh when did his brain go

[00:01:53] And when does a veteran get to be a crock

[00:01:56] No gold at the end of this rainbow

[00:02:01] He always boxed clever with his shadowy hopes

[00:02:04] But now he's in trouble with his back on the ropes

[00:02:08] And the hands of time are bunched into fists:

[00:02:12] Yeah he's out for the Count

[00:02:18] The sword has sunk in the lake

[00:02:22] And now he's watching dawn break

[00:02:26] And now he waits for the stake

[00:02:29] Dracul

[00:03:02] This boy's a fool

[00:03:06] This fool's a man

[00:03:10] All men are ruled

[00:03:13] By the Second Hand