《The Guitar Lesson》歌词

[00:00:00] The Guitar Lesson - Steven Wilson

[00:00:09] The pupil is twelve

[00:00:11] Attractive withdrawn

[00:00:13] In a midnight blue

[00:00:16] School uniform

[00:00:18] Lips just a little too full for her face

[00:00:23] Distant eyes full of space

[00:00:32] In her posture no trace of coquette

[00:00:36] No defiance

[00:00:42] She fingers the frets looking forlorn

[00:00:46] Crossing her legs where her tights have been torn

[00:00:51] Starts as her mother comes into the room

[00:00:55] And the afternoon grows still

[00:01:05] And her mother feels a chill

[00:01:07] Shivers and buttons her coat

[00:01:14] I gently correct the curve of her back

[00:01:19] And open her book in the now empty flat

[00:01:23] At the classical piece I've had her prepare

[00:01:28] And her arms are bare as she plays

[00:01:38] And I draw back behind her ear

[00:01:41] A few strands of hair gone astray

[00:02:05] She shows me her bracelet the lesson is done

[00:02:10] I turn it around between finger and thumb

[00:02:15] We sit face to face and it seems to me that

[00:02:19] Her face is the face of a cat

[00:02:29] And touching the place where her breasts will be

[00:02:34] I press my hand flat

[00:02:37] Now from afar it seems to resemble

[00:02:41] A strange composition in oil

[00:02:46] Of a man a guitar and an innocent little girl

[00:03:01] As if listening to the distant sound of a burglar alarm

[00:03:31] What happened next it's hard to recall

[00:03:34] The guitar lesson left no traces at all