《A Louse Is Not A Home(2006 Digital Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:00] A Louse Is Not A Home (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill

[00:00:00] Sometimes it's very scary here sometimes it's very sad

[00:00:23] Sometimes I think I'll disappear betimes I think I have

[00:00:45] There's a line snaking down my mirror

[00:00:54] Splintered glass distorts my face

[00:01:05] And though the light is strong and strange

[00:01:15] It can't illuminate the musty corners of this place

[00:01:28] There is a lofty lonely Lohengrenic castle in the clouds

[00:01:37] I draw my murky meanings there

[00:01:48] But seven years' dark luck is just around the corner

[00:01:57] And in the shadows lurks the spectre of Despair

[00:02:12] A cracked mirror' mid the drapes of the landing

[00:02:20] Split image labored understanding

[00:02:28] I'm only trying to find a place to hide my home

[00:03:15] I've lived in houses composed of glass

[00:03:17] Where every movement is charted

[00:03:19] But now the monitor screens are dark

[00:03:21] And I can't tell if silent eyes are there

[00:03:23] My words are spiders upon the page

[00:03:26] They spin out faith hope and reason

[00:03:27] But are they meet and just or only dust

[00:03:30] Gathering about my chair

[00:03:33] Sometimes I get the feeling

[00:03:35] That there's someone else there

[00:03:37] The faceless watcher makes me uneasy

[00:03:40] I can feel him through the floorboards

[00:03:43] And His presence is creepy

[00:03:44] He informs me that I shall be expelled

[00:03:50] What is that but out of and into

[00:03:53] I don't know the nature of the door that I'd go through

[00:03:57] I don't know the nature of the nature

[00:03:59] That I am inside

[00:04:07] I've lived in houses of brick and lead

[00:04:10] Where all emotion is sacred

[00:04:11] And if you want to devour the fruit

[00:04:14] You must first sniff at the fragrance

[00:04:16] And lay your body before the shrine

[00:04:18] With poems and posies and papers

[00:04:20] Or if you catch the ruse you'll have to choose

[00:04:22] To stay a monk or leave a vagrant

[00:04:26] What is this place you call home

[00:04:30] Is it a sermon or a confession

[00:04:32] Is it the chalice that you use for protection

[00:04:36] Is it really only somewhere you can stay

[00:04:40] Is it a rulebook or a lecture

[00:04:42] Is it a beating at the hands of your Protector

[00:04:46] Does the idol have feet of clay

[00:04:51] Home is what you make it

[00:04:53] So my friends all say

[00:04:58] Don't you know I rarely see their homes in these dark days

[00:05:06] Some of them are snails

[00:05:09] And carry houses on their backs

[00:05:16] Others live in monuments

[00:05:19] Which one day will be racks

[00:05:25] I keep my home in place

[00:05:28] With sellotape and tintacks

[00:05:33] But I still feel there's some other Force here

[00:05:42] He who cracks the mirrors and moves the walls

[00:05:50] Keeps staring through

[00:05:51] The eyeslits of the portraits in my hall

[00:05:57] He ravages my library and taps the telephone

[00:06:06] I've never actually seen Him

[00:06:09] But I know He's in my home

[00:06:17] And if he goes away

[00:06:21] I can't stay here either

[00:06:29] I believe I think

[00:06:40] Well I don't know

[00:07:42] I only live in one room at a time

[00:07:47] But all of the walls are ears

[00:07:49] And all the windows eyes

[00:07:52] Everything else is foreign

[00:07:54] Home' is my wordless chant

[00:07:59] Give it a chance

[00:08:38] I am surrounded by flesh and bone

[00:08:41] I am a temple of living

[00:08:42] I am a hermit I am a drone

[00:08:45] And I am boring out a place to be

[00:08:47] With secret garlands about my head

[00:08:50] Unearthly silence is broke

[00:08:51] The room is growing dark and in the stark light

[00:08:54] I see a face I know

[00:08:57] Could this be the guy who never shows

[00:09:01] The cracked mirror what he's feeling

[00:09:03] Merely mumbles prayers to the ground where he's kneeling

[00:09:07] Home is home is home is home is home is home is me

[00:09:11] All you people looking for your houses

[00:09:14] Don't throw your weight around

[00:09:16] You might break your glasses

[00:09:18] And if you do you know you just can't see

[00:09:22] And then how are you to find

[00:09:25] The dawning of the day

[00:09:31] Day is just a word I use

[00:09:34] To keep the dark at bay

[00:09:39] And people are imaginary nothing else exists

[00:09:48] Except the room I'm sitting in

[00:09:52] And of course the allpervading mist

[00:09:55] Sometimes I wonder if even that's real

[00:10:10] Maybe I should delouse this place

[00:10:21] Maybe I should deplace this louse

[00:10:31] Maybe I'll maybe my life away

[00:10:43] In the confines of this silent house

[00:10:55] Sometimes it's very scary here

[00:11:04] Sometimes it's very sad

[00:11:15] Sometimes I think I'll disappear

[00:11:24] Sometimes I think