Slouching Thomas Bethlehem-Joni Mitchell

[ti:Slouching Thomas Bethlehem] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Night Ride Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slouching Thomas Bethlehem - Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:26.61]Turning and turning within the widening gyre [00:36.16]The falcon cannot hear the falconer [00:43.17]Things fall apart the center cannot hold [00:51.92]And a blood dimmed tide is loosed upon the world [00:59.42]Nothing is sacred the ceremony sinks [01:12.49]Innocence is drowned in anarchy [01:18.80]The best lack conviction [01:24.99]Given some time to think [01:28.55]And the worst are full [01:30.17]Of passion without mercy [01:38.61]Surely some revelation is at hand [01:44.11]Surely it's the second coming [01:46.05]And the wrath has finally taken form [01:49.67]For what is this rough beast [01:52.43]It's hour come at last [01:57.99]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:03.55]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:11.43]Oh oh yeah [02:17.01]To be born oh oh oh yeah [02:31.80]Hoping and hoping as if by my weak faith [02:40.92]The spirit of this world would heal and rise [02:48.05]Vast are the shadows that straddle and strafe [02:56.36]And struggle in the darkness troubling my eyes [03:07.49]Shaped like a lion it has the head of a man [03:16.93]With a gaze as blank and pitiless as the sun [03:24.05]And it's moving its slow [03:27.56]Thighs across the desert sands [03:33.68]Through dark indignant reeling falcons [03:43.62]Surely some revelation is at hand [03:49.18]Surely it's the second coming [03:51.12]And the wrath has finally taken form [03:54.49]For what is this rough beast [03:57.43]It's hour come at last [04:02.99]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:08.56]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:16.30]Oh oh yeah [04:21.87]To be born hey Bethlehem shape of a lion [04:36.43]Raging and raging it rises from the deep [04:44.94]Opening its eyes after twenty centuries [04:53.19]Vexed to a nightmare out of a stony sleep [05:02.50]By a rocking cradle by the sea of Galilee [05:12.50]Surely some revelation is at hand [05:18.19]Surely it's the second coming [05:20.25]And the wrath has finally taken form [05:23.56]For what is this rough beast [05:25.69]It's hour come at last [05:30.44]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:37.44]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:45.44]Oh oh yeah [05:50.75]To be born hey Bethlehem [05:59.86]Shape of a lion oh oh [06:11.20]Just the shape of a lion oh oh [06:17.95]Hey Bethlehem shape of a lion