Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Album Version)-Joni Mitchell

[ti:Slouching Towards Bethlehem] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:The Beginning Of Survival] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slouching Towards Bethlehem (スラウチング・トワーズ・ベツレヘム) (Album Version) - Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:25.60]Turning and turning [00:27.84] [00:30.78]Within the widening gyre [00:32.34] [00:35.02]The falcon cannot hear the falconer [00:39.76] [00:42.20]Things fall apart [00:44.07] [00:47.76]The center cannot hold [00:49.63] [00:51.50]And a blood dimmed tide [00:54.00] [00:54.56]Is loosed upon the world [00:56.42] [01:01.91]Nothing is sacred [01:02.79] [01:07.29]The ceremony sinks [01:08.72] [01:11.46]Innocence is drowned [01:13.46] [01:14.46]In anarchy [01:16.14] [01:18.07]The best lack conviction [01:19.89] [01:24.01]Given some time to think [01:25.75] [01:27.69]And the worst are full of passion [01:30.06] [01:30.68]Without mercy [01:31.49] [01:37.61]Surely some revelation is at hand [01:40.79] [01:43.23]Surely it's the second coming [01:45.16] [01:45.78]And the wrath has finally taken form [01:48.04] [01:48.85]For what is this rough beast [01:50.65] [01:51.53]Its hour come at last [01:52.96] [01:54.77]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:00.32] [02:02.51]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:07.51] [02:31.34]Hoping and hoping [02:32.34] [02:35.95]As if by my weak faith [02:37.89] [02:40.02]The spirit of this world [02:41.89] [02:42.75]Would heal and rise [02:44.63] [02:47.19]Vast are the shadows [02:48.75] [02:52.62]That straddle and strafe [02:54.49] [02:56.55]And struggle in the darkness [02:58.48] [02:59.60]Troubling my eyes [03:01.30] [03:06.60]Shaped like a lion [03:07.84] [03:12.08]It has the head of a man [03:14.61] [03:15.98]With a gaze as blank [03:17.67] [03:18.92]And pitiless as the sun [03:20.60] [03:22.97]And it's moving its slow thighs [03:24.97] [03:28.78]Across the desert sands [03:30.46] [03:32.64]Through dark indignant [03:35.01] [03:35.76]Reeling falcons [03:38.82] [03:42.50]Surely some revelation is at hand [03:46.37] [03:48.06]Surely it's the second coming [03:50.49]And the wrath has finally taken form [03:52.17] [03:53.61]For what is this rough beast [03:55.10] [03:56.29]Its hour come at last [03:58.28] [03:59.72]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:05.09] [04:07.52]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:11.34] [04:37.74]Raging and raging [04:38.68] [04:41.05]It rises from the deep [04:42.86] [04:45.35]Opening its eyes [04:48.47]After twenty centuries [04:50.10] [04:53.22]Vexed to a nightmare [04:54.22] [04:58.02]Out of a stony sleep [04:59.08] [05:01.33]By a rocking cradle [05:04.32]By the Sea of Galilee [05:05.94] [05:11.50]Surely some revelation is at hand [05:14.74] [05:17.18]Surely it's the second coming [05:18.99] [05:19.74]And the wrath has finally taken form [05:21.17] [05:22.85]For what is this rough beast [05:24.36] [05:25.17]Its hour come at last [05:26.52] [05:30.98]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:34.34] [05:36.90]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born