《Let Us Begin(What Are We Making Weapons For)(Live at Five Seasons Center， Cedar Rapids， IA - December 1987)》歌词

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

[00:01:24] I am the son of a grassland farmer

[00:01:28] Western oklahoma nineteen forty three

[00:01:34] I always felt grateful to live

[00:01:38] In the land of the free

[00:01:44] I gave up my father to South Korea

[00:01:49] The mind of my brother to Vietnam

[00:01:56] Now there's a banker who says

[00:01:59] I must give up my land

[00:02:05] There are four generations

[00:02:07] Of blood

[00:02:08] In this topsoil

[00:02:10] Four generations of love

[00:02:13] On this farm

[00:02:16] Before I give up

[00:02:19] I would gladly

[00:02:20] Give up my right arm

[00:02:27] What are we making weapons for

[00:02:32] Why keep on feeding the war machine

[00:02:36] We take it right out of the mouths

[00:02:39] Of our babies

[00:02:41] Take it away from the hands

[00:02:44] Of the poor

[00:02:45] Tell me what are

[00:02:47] We making weapons for

[00:02:58] I had a son and my son was a soldier

[00:03:03] He was so like my father

[00:03:05] He was so much like me

[00:03:09] To be a good comrade was the best

[00:03:12] That he dreamed he could be

[00:03:18] He gave up his future to revolution

[00:03:24] His life to a battle

[00:03:26] That just can't be won

[00:03:30] For this is not living to live

[00:03:34] At the point of a gun

[00:03:39] I remember the nine hundred days

[00:03:43] Of Leningrad

[00:03:45] The sound of the dying

[00:03:47] The cut of the cold

[00:03:51] I remember the moments I prayed

[00:03:55] I would never grow old

[00:04:01] What are we making weapons for

[00:04:06] Why keep on feeding the war machine

[00:04:11] We take it right out of the mouths

[00:04:14] Of our babies

[00:04:16] Take it away from the hands of the poor

[00:04:20] Tell me what are we making weapons for

[00:04:32] For the first time in my life

[00:04:35] I feel like a prisoner

[00:04:37] A slave to the ways of the powers

[00:04:41] That be

[00:04:43] And I fear for my children as

[00:04:46] I fear for the for the future I see

[00:04:53] Tell me how can it be

[00:04:55] We're still fighting each other

[00:04:58] What does it take

[00:05:00] For a people to learn

[00:05:04] If our song is not sung as a chorus

[00:05:08] We surely will burn

[00:05:14] What are we making weapons for

[00:05:19] Why keep on feeding the war machine

[00:05:24] We take it right out

[00:05:26] Of the mouths of our babies

[00:05:29] Take it away from the hands

[00:05:32] Of the poor

[00:05:33] Tell me what are

[00:05:34] We making weapons for

[00:05:39] Have we forgotten

[00:05:44] All the lives that were given

[00:05:49] All the vows that were taken

[00:05:54] Saying never again

[00:06:00] Now for the first time

[00:06:04] This could be the last time

[00:06:09] If peace is our vision

[00:06:14] Let us begin

[00:06:17] Have we forgotten

[00:06:21] All the lives that were given

[00:06:26] All the vows that were taken

[00:06:31] Saying never again never again

[00:06:36] Now for the first time

[00:06:42] This could be the last time

[00:06:47] If peace is our vision

[00:06:52] Let us begin let us begin