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[ar:Peter Hammill]
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[00:00.00]Curtains (窗帘) - Peter Hammill
[00:05.27]Written by：Peter Hammill
[00:10.55]Well tommy woke's at morning
[00:14.52]
[00:15.31]With a headfull of rocks
[00:18.09]
[00:19.12]And sylvia was in shock
[00:22.38]
[00:24.92]The story they'd been faking
[00:28.74]
[00:29.55]Had frozen on their lips
[00:32.07]
[00:33.13]And fallen through the brush of fingertips
[00:39.67]And though they packed their bags
[00:42.76]
[00:43.27]Ready for the road
[00:47.02]
[00:47.90]The curtains and the bedroom door
[00:52.18]Stayed closed
[00:55.57]
[00:58.77]For sylvia and tommy
[01:00.95]
[01:03.04]This is a curtain call
[01:06.05]
[01:07.84]They've been running away for years
[01:12.02]But pride in flight
[01:14.40]Precedes a certain fall
[01:18.25]
[01:22.70]So tommy rubs his stubble
[01:25.31]
[01:26.25]As if to check his face is there
[01:29.87]
[01:31.01]And sylvia combs her hair
[01:34.75]
[01:36.72]Just like nothing really happened
[01:40.84]
[01:41.40]They'll carry on as before
[01:44.71]
[01:45.54]But this thing won't work will it any more
[01:51.78]And though the bags are packed
[01:54.77]
[01:55.65]Ready for the road
[01:59.29]
[01:59.98]The curtains and the bedroom door
[02:04.38]Stay closed
[02:10.78]For sylvia and tommy
[02:13.46]
[02:15.24]There's nowhere left to hide
[02:17.97]
[02:19.90]They've been running for years
[02:23.02]To find some kind of thrill
[02:26.53]To take away the emptiness
[02:30.73]
[02:31.44]That they both feel inside
[02:35.36]
[02:37.12]Making the fictional
[02:39.83]
[02:41.63]Out of the matter of fact
[02:44.11]
[02:46.33]Masquerade the picture
[02:49.92]But now the frame's all cracked
[02:54.84]
[02:58.81]For sylvia and tommy
[03:01.40]
[03:03.36]There's nothing left to try
[03:06.36]
[03:07.95]They've been running for years
[03:10.89]To find some kind of life
[03:14.69]That offers an excitement
[03:18.70]That the rest of us pass by
[03:22.99]
[03:27.63]So tommy woke that morning
[03:31.14]
[03:32.81]With a headfull of rocks
[03:35.31]
[03:36.19]And sylvia was in shock
[03:39.49]
[03:41.92]This story they'd been faking
[03:45.77]
[03:46.44]Was frozen on their lips
[03:49.54]
[03:50.52]And falling through the brush of fingertips
[03:56.57]And though the bags are packed
[04:00.27]Ready for the road
[04:05.12]The curtains and the bedroom door
[04:09.49]Stay closed
[04:11.52]
[04:14.04]Stay closed
[04:16.43]
[04:19.15]Stay closed
[04:22.43]
[04:49.39]For sylvia and tommy
[04:51.97]
[04:53.77]There's nowhere left to go
[04:57.13]
[04:58.87]They've been running away so long
[05:02.41]
[05:02.93]There's just no strength to carry on
[05:07.96]They can't get back to what they knew
[05:12.47]A life abandoned once and long ago