ฟังเพลงLast Year's Man

Last Year's Man - Leonard Cohen (莱昂纳德·科恩)

The rain falls down on last year's man

That's a Jew's harp on the table

That's a crayon in his hand

And the corners of the blueprint

Are ruined since they rolled

Far past the stems of thumbtacks

That still throw shadows on the wood

And the skylight is like skin

For a drum I'll never mend

And all the rain falls down amen

On the works of last year's man

I met a lady she was playing

With her soldiers in the dark

Oh one by one she had to tell them

That her name was Joan of Arc

I was in that army yes

I stayed a little while

I want to thank you

Joan of Arc for treating me so well

And though I wear a uniform

I was not born to fight

All these wounded boys

You lie beside goodnight

My friends goodnight

I came upon a wedding

That old families had contrived

Bethlehem the bridegroom

Babylon the bride

Great Babylon was naked

Oh she stood there trembling for me

And Bethlehem inflamed us

Both like the shy one at some orgy

And when we fell together

All our flesh was like a veil

That I had to draw aside to see

The serpent eat it's tail

Some women wait for Jesus

And some women wait for Cain

So I hang upon my altar

And I hoist my Axe again

And I take the one who finds me

Back to where it all began

When Jesus was the honeymoon

And Cain was just the man

And we read from pleasant

Bibles that are bound in blood and skin

That the wilderness is gathering

All it's children back again

The rain falls down on last year's man

An hour has gone by

And he has not moved his hand

But everything will happen

If he only gives the word

The lovers will rise up

And the mountains touch the ground

But the skylight is like skin

For a drum I'll never mend

And all the rain falls down amen

On the works of last year's man