The Teacher-Paul Simon

[ti:The Teacher] [ar:Paul Simon] [al:In the Blue Light] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Teacher - Paul Simon (保罗·西蒙) [00:02.45]Lyrics by：Paul Simon [00:04.91]Composed by：Paul Simon [00:07.37]Produced by：Paul Simon/Roy Halee [00:09.83]There once was a teacher of great renown [00:14.17]Whose words were like the tablets of stone [00:18.51]To navigate the sea of sadness [00:22.34]To shield the fragile mind from madness [00:26.87]Gather your goods and follow me [00:31.65]As all around you perish [00:38.16]Well I was only a child of the city [00:43.09]My parents were children of immigrant stock [00:47.68]So we followed as followers go [00:51.49]Over the mountain with a napkin of snow [00:55.39]And ate the berries and the roots that grow [00:58.75]Along the timberline [01:03.66]Deeper and deeper the dreamer of love [01:07.82]Sleeps on a quilt of stars [01:16.17]It's cold [01:20.31]It's cold [01:49.88]Time in abundance thickened his step [01:54.27]So the teacher divided in two [01:58.37]One half ate the forests and the fields [02:02.34]The other half sucked all the moisture from the clouds [02:06.66]And we like fools were amazed by the power of his appetite [02:23.52]Deeper and deeper the dreamer of love [02:27.71]Sleeps on a quilt of stars [02:35.39]It's cold [02:44.28]All that remains of the follower's fate [02:48.25]Are the remnants of charred photographs [02:53.15]The teacher is buried under rubble stone [02:57.78]And the wind reads his words at last [03:05.12]Deeper and deeper the dreamer of love [03:08.91]Sleeps on a quilt of stars