Long Strange Golden Road-The Waterboys

[ti:Long Strange Golden Road] [ar:The Waterboys] [al:Modern Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Long Strange Golden Road - The Waterboys (水孩子) [00:15.66]I was longing to be wooed [00:19.18]I was ready to be humbled [00:22.23] [00:23.44]By the words that you had written [00:26.15] [00:26.74]By the syllables you mumbled [00:30.09] [00:31.11]Yeah I was ready in my heart [00:33.88] [00:35.55]To have my heart invaded [00:38.15] [00:39.16]By the fervour of your passion me [00:42.77]Yes I came to be persuaded [00:45.76] [00:48.79]But when I heard your ragged voice [00:51.66] [00:52.30]Something switched in my perception [00:55.50] [00:57.07]And I knew I was the victim [01:00.31]Of a beautiful deception [01:03.75] [01:04.73]All my once exact beliefs [01:07.44] [01:08.95]Like tangled threads unravelled [01:11.39] [01:12.37]I walked out stunned and liberated [01:15.35] [01:17.44]And so began my travels [01:19.40] [01:22.62]Keep the river on your right [01:25.04] [01:26.58]And the highway at your shoulder [01:29.44] [01:30.50]And the front line in your sights pioneer [01:35.06] [01:37.78]Keep your eye on the road [01:41.21] [01:43.11]Remember what you told her [01:45.87]This is all in code my dear [01:51.07] [01:53.89]You better get yourself a coat [01:56.81] [01:57.98]Said the handsome taxi driver [02:01.03] [02:01.95]And he sighed like seven bridges [02:04.74] [02:05.90]Like a natural-born survivor [02:08.77] [02:09.89]As we drove into the night [02:12.41] [02:13.88]I could feel the forest jangling [02:16.67] [02:17.89]All the choices laid before me [02:20.73] [02:21.61]And their consequences dangling [02:24.55] [02:27.18]We came upon a stricken ship [02:30.12] [02:32.00]That must have once been splendid [02:34.35] [02:35.97]The captain as he died said Boys [02:39.17]Our revels now are ended [02:42.17] [02:42.87]I heard a wild holy band [02:45.86] [02:47.04]Playing jazz that was outrageous [02:49.94] [02:50.92]That invoked the days of rapture [02:53.64] [02:54.37]When our love was still young and contagious [02:57.79] [03:00.58]Keep the river on your right [03:03.06] [03:04.58]And the highway at your shoulder [03:07.35] [03:08.43]And the front line in your sights pioneer [03:12.88] [03:15.68]Keep your eye on the road [03:18.96] [03:20.88]Remember what you told her [03:23.56]This is all in code my dear [03:28.59] [03:31.81]In a dim-lit motel room [03:34.41] [03:35.15]Two sad lovers were discoursing [03:38.66] [03:39.53]On the dignity of exile [03:42.81] [03:43.40]And the merits of divorcing [03:46.38] [03:47.21]She said all certainty is gone [03:50.05] [03:51.22]But he leapt up still denying [03:53.94] [03:54.79]Cried I won't believe the flame I lit [03:58.86]Is dead or even dying [04:01.89] [04:04.55]She left him drooling in the dust [04:07.50] [04:08.60]And with rucksack packed begun her [04:11.54] [04:13.05]Bitter journey to the border [04:15.86]Which is where I wooed and won her [04:19.33] [04:20.21]She was Aphrodite Helen Thetis [04:24.10] [04:24.85]Eve among the satyrs [04:27.03] [04:27.85]She was Venus in a v-neck sweater [04:30.54] [04:31.80]She was all that ever mattered [04:34.68] [04:37.68]Keep the river on your right [04:40.27] [04:41.58]And the highway at your shoulder [04:44.50] [04:45.52]And the front line in your sights pioneer [04:50.05] [04:52.74]Keep your eye on the road [04:55.94] [04:57.81]Remember what you told her [05:00.03] [05:00.55]This is all in code my dear [05:05.74] [05:08.65]Like Dean Moriarty's ghost [05:11.33] [05:12.09]I came in quest of secret knowledge [05:15.34] [05:16.35]In the winter of my journey [05:19.11] [05:19.93]To a crumbling Druid college [05:22.95] [05:24.03]There I read the books of lore [05:26.70] [05:28.07]And contemplated in seclusion [05:30.76] [05:31.64]But I took my leave embittered [05:34.36] [05:35.70]Still in love with my illusions [05:38.37] [05:41.18]In the drizzling Irish rain [05:43.77] [05:45.15]As a tender dawn was breaking [05:47.99] [05:48.99]In a doorway I stood spellbound by [05:52.67]The ancient music they were making [05:55.80] [05:56.43]I took my breakfast with the Gods [05:58.99] [06:00.88]On a blushing summer morning [06:03.04] [06:04.37]Till a wind blew them all away [06:06.67] [06:08.16]I had misread every warning [06:10.71] [06:13.68]Keep the river on your right [06:16.27] [06:17.58]And the highway at your shoulder [06:20.39] [06:21.35]And the front line in your sights pioneer [06:25.83] [06:28.45]Keep your eye on the road [06:31.57] [06:33.54]Remember what you told her [06:35.67] [06:36.21]This is all in code my dear [06:41.23] [06:44.39]Under cold electric light [06:46.41] [06:48.20]I watch the scenes mutating [06:51.00] [06:52.05]Like an old time frontier ballad [06:54.78] [06:55.81]Or a carousel rotating [06:58.74] [06:59.58]As if in a moment from a film [07:02.05] [07:03.99]With astonishing precision [07:06.36] [07:07.68]The camera zooms in close [07:09.88] [07:11.20]And a figure comes into vision [07:13.75] [07:15.09]I'm in Tokyo it's dawn [07:17.82] [07:19.13]And it's raining hallelujahs [07:21.41] [07:22.48]Down the bright-lit neon canyons [07:25.81]Along the sidewalks of Shibuya [07:29.13] [07:30.48]I'm trying to take a stance [07:32.60] [07:34.28]And rise above my contradictions [07:36.58] [07:37.88]But I'm just a bunch of words in pants [07:40.72] [07:41.96]And most of those are fiction [07:44.47] [07:47.35]Keep the river on your right [07:49.90] [07:51.20]And the highway at your shoulder [07:54.00] [07:55.10]And the front line in your sights pioneer [07:59.41] [08:02.10]Keep your eye on the road [08:05.39] [08:07.25]Remember what you told her [08:09.88]This is all in code my dear [08:14.85] [08:17.96]Keep the river on your right [08:20.51] [08:21.82]And the highway at your shoulder [08:24.45] [08:25.54]And the front line in your sights pioneer [08:29.95] [08:32.72]Keep your eye on the road [08:35.75] [08:37.61]Remember what you told her [08:39.64] [08:40.26]This is all in code my dear