《Before I Knocked》歌词

[00:00:00] Before I Knocked - Richard Burton

[00:00:00] Before I knocked and flesh let enter

[00:00:03] With liquid hands tapped on the womb

[00:00:06] I who was as shapeless as the water

[00:00:08] That shaped the Jordan near my home

[00:00:11] Was brother to Mnetha's daughter

[00:00:13] And sister to the fathering worm

[00:00:17] I who was deaf to spring and summer

[00:00:19] Who knew not sun nor moon by name

[00:00:22] Felt thud beneath my flesh's armour

[00:00:24] As yet was in a molten form

[00:00:27] The leaden stars the rainy hammer

[00:00:29] Swung by my father from his dome

[00:00:33] I knew the message of the winter

[00:00:35] The darted hail the childish snow

[00:00:37] And the wind was my sister suitor;

[00:00:40] Wind in me leaped the hellborn dew;

[00:00:42] My veins flowed with the Eastern weather;

[00:00:45] Ungotten I knew night and day

[00:00:50] As yet ungotten I did suffer;

[00:00:53] The rack of dreams my lily bones

[00:00:56] Did twist into a living cipher

[00:00:58] And flesh was snipped to cross the lines

[00:01:00] Of gallow crosses on the liver

[00:01:03] And brambles in the wringing brains

[00:01:07] My throat knew thirst before the structure

[00:01:09] Of skin and vein around the well

[00:01:12] Where words and water make a mixture

[00:01:14] Unfailing till the blood runs foul;

[00:01:17] My heart knew love my belly hunger;

[00:01:21] I smelt the maggot in my stool

[00:01:25] And time cast forth my mortal creature

[00:01:28] To drift or drown upon the seas

[00:01:31] Acquainted with the salt adventure

[00:01:33] Of tides that never touch the shores

[00:01:36] I who was rich was made the richer

[00:01:39] By sipping at the vine of days

[00:01:43] I born of flesh and ghost was neither

[00:01:45] A ghost nor man but mortal ghost

[00:01:48] And I was struck down by death's feather

[00:01:51] I was a mortal to the last

[00:01:53] Long breath that carried to my father

[00:01:56] The message of his dying christ

[00:02:00] You who bow down at cross and altar

[00:02:04] Remember me and pity Him

[00:02:08] Who took my flesh and bone for armour

[00:02:12] And doublecrossed my mother's womb