《The Lilac And The Apple》歌词

[00:00:00] A Lilac bush and an Apple tree

[00:00:04] Were standing in the woods

[00:00:08] Out on the hill above the town,

[00:00:12] Where once a farmhouse stood.

[00:00:17] In the winter the leaves are bare

[00:00:21] And no one sees the signs

[00:00:26] Of a house that stood and a garden that grew

[00:00:30] And life in another time.

[00:00:36] One Spring when the buds came bursting forth

[00:00:40] And grass grew on the land,

[00:00:44] The Lilac spoke to the Apple tree

[00:00:49] As only an old friend can.

[00:00:55] Do you think, said the Lilac, this might be the year

[00:00:59] When someone will build here once more?

[00:01:04] Here by the cellar, still open and deep,

[00:01:08] There's room for new walls and a floor.

[00:01:14] Oh, no, said the Apple, there are so few

[00:01:18] Who come here on the mountain this way

[00:01:23] And when they do, they don't often see

[00:01:27] Why we're growing here, so far away.

[00:01:33] A long time ago we were planted by hands

[00:01:38] That worked in the mines and the mills

[00:01:42] When the country was young and the people who came

[00:01:46] Built their homes in the hills.

[00:01:52] But now there are cities, the roads have come

[00:01:56] And no one lives here today

[00:02:00] And the only signs of the farms in the hills

[00:02:06] Are the things not carried away

[00:02:12] Broken dishes, piles of boards,

[00:02:18] A tin plate, an old leather shoe.

[00:02:23] And an Apple tree still bending down

[00:02:30] And a Lilac where a garden once grew.

[00:02:34] The Lilac & The Apple - Kate Wolf