Unholy Elixir - Kate Tempest.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Dan Carey/Kate Tempest
[00:01.00] 作曲 : Dan Carey/Kate Tempest
[00:09.52]I touch the beginning
[00:11.42]Animating animals and tree Gods
[00:13.45]Scratching out legends in cave walls
[00:15.32]The days pour down into nights as we watched
[00:17.87]We mapped stars with peaks, we fought beasts
[00:19.92]We caught food for the feast
[00:21.89]And we walked to a breast to receive the bound wheat
[00:26.32]The grass was black and strange
[00:29.21]As we razed plains to ash
[00:31.31]We laid claims, we exchanged grains, and we made pacts
[00:34.84]And we clashed, and we strained, and the rains lashed
[00:39.62]The young maids were brave, but they were made to lay flat
[00:42.38]The old ways were too ingrained to make the reins snap
[00:46.63]So we laid traps
[00:49.33]We gave our names back to the Saints
[00:52.01]We sang out thanks and complaints
[00:54.42]We burned fat, arranged bones into flames
[00:57.66]Each bird a great catch
[01:00.33]Our songs were spells, and our spells were plain facts
[01:06.90]She laid down in the road where the people go by
[01:12.23]And she declared herself willing to try
[01:18.25]I laid down beside her
[01:21.37]But all I could see were the feet as they walked over me
[01:34.22]That's when she told me, "I was holy elixir"
[01:36.79]She said "I thought I knew the world, but it was only a picture"
[01:39.89]She said "We're all written in the holiest scripture
[01:42.38]It's just we're living in this time that says no inhibitions
[01:46.45]Get yours, keep going the distance, no limits
[01:49.19]And don't bother protesting because nobody listens
[01:52.36]Besides, all your solutions dissolve under scrutiny
[01:55.51]And you can't stand a note of derision
[01:57.43]Instead, seek approval to justify your existence
[02:00.63]Have opinions, but have no resolve or conviction
[02:03.36]Just keep your head down
[02:04.75]Breathe the fumes and indulge your addictions
[02:06.80]Routine is healthy, ignore the affliction
[02:09.38]The cost to the soul and the constant constriction
[02:14.01]Don't consider too closely, have no intermission
[02:16.58]Keep throwing your fists in slow repetition
[02:19.36]Most of us manage, what makes you so different?
[02:24.34]Now, you seem a bright spark
[02:25.80]Take the road with the pilgrims
[02:27.10]Head for the temples of democracy
[02:29.15]Freedom, growth, reason, liberty, hope
[02:32.29]But don't pay attention to what's hanging from the rope"
[02:35.06]Decode the language, unfold the symbols
[02:37.44]I'm told disciples got lost in the hillside
[02:40.12]Following intellect, they let go of wisdom
[02:42.63]And now they'll tell you the soul's a closed system
[02:45.15]They sacrificed instinct to phony ambition
[02:47.76]And now what they hold in their fist has become all that there is
[02:50.40]But total existence needs meaning and myth
[02:53.04]Many misjudged the way and got lost in the mist
[02:55.71]She said"Your loneliness is the symptom, not the sickness"
[03:00.95]And the moment her lips said "peace," my peace melted
[03:06.20]I became a memory, I felt myself peel
[03:12.52]I was atoms, I was Magnesium, I was Calcium
[03:18.01]I was real
[03:21.40]She said, "We are born of collision
[03:25.96]We are divisions of a bigger vision
[03:28.79]And yet, we run around like hamsters
[03:31.61]Spinning the wheel"
[03:53.30]I was on my knees then, I was begging for pardon
[04:02.85]I was old and clothed in white garments
[04:08.94]In a vast red desert where the rocks were dark blue and varnished
[04:14.99]That's when the voice said, "This is the garden
[04:22.02]Now you better start sowing or there won't be a harvest"