A Man For All Seasons-Al Stewart

[ti:A Man For All Seasons] [ar:Al Stewart] [al:Time Passages] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Man For All Seasons (四季之人) - Al Stewart (阿尔·史蒂伍德) [00:23.89]What if you reached the age of reason [00:27.28] [00:28.45]Only to find there was no reprieve [00:31.90] [00:32.81]Would you still be a man for all seasons [00:36.47] [00:37.62]Or would you just have to leave [00:40.12] [00:41.73]We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty [00:45.80] [00:46.38]Not turning to see how we've come [00:49.48] [00:50.94]And peer down my highway from here to eternity [00:54.99] [00:55.53]And reach out for love on the run [00:58.53] [01:00.17]While the man for all seasons is lost behind the sun [01:05.60] [01:24.17]Henry Plantagenet still looks for someone [01:27.48] [01:28.67]To bring good news in his hour of doubt [01:31.93] [01:32.74]While Thomas More waits in the Tower of London [01:36.69] [01:37.82]Watching the sands running out [01:40.10] [01:41.82]And measures the hours out from here to oblivion [01:45.89] [01:46.51]In actions that can't be undone [01:49.41] [01:51.05]A sailor through darkness he scans the meridian [01:55.00] [01:55.64]And caught by the first rays of dawn [01:58.69] [02:00.52]The man for all seasons is lost beneath the storm [02:05.58] [02:13.09]And I should know by now I should know by now [02:19.32] [02:20.13]I hear them call it out all around [02:23.69] [02:27.23]Oh they go ah there's nothing to believe in [02:37.79]Hear them ah just daydreams deceiving [02:47.23]They'll just let you down [02:48.90] [04:02.04]So what if you reached the age of reason [04:05.98] [04:07.26]Only to find there was no reprieve [04:10.47] [04:11.58]Would you still be a man for all seasons [04:15.21] [04:16.39]Or would you just disbelieve [04:18.78] [04:20.40]We measure our gains out in luck and coincidence [04:24.58] [04:25.33]Lanterns to turn back the night [04:27.85] [04:29.51]And put our defeats down to chance or experience [04:33.52] [04:34.14]And try once again for the light [04:37.06] [04:38.58]Some wait for the waters of fortune to cover them [04:43.17]Some just see the tides of ill chance rushing over them [04:47.20] [04:47.76]Some call on Jehovah some cry out to Allah [04:52.30]Some wait for the boats that still row to Valhalla [04:56.27] [04:57.00]While you try to accept what fates are unfolding [05:00.84] [05:01.55]While some say they're sure where the blame should be falling [05:05.58] [05:06.24]You look 'round for maybe a chance of forestalling [05:10.60]But too soon it's over and done [05:13.87] [05:15.54]And the man for all seasons is lost behind the sun