1917 (2007 Remastered Album Version)-Linda Ronstadt

[ti:1917 (2007 Remastered Album Version)] [ar:Linda Ronstadt] [al:Songbird - Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems (Digital Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]1917 (2007 Remastered Album Version) - Linda Ronstadt (琳达·朗丝黛) [00:07.11]The strange young man who comes to me [00:10.38] [00:13.14]A soldier on a three day spree [00:16.98] [00:19.39]Who needs one night's cheap ecstasy [00:22.77] [00:26.32]And a woman's arms to hide him [00:28.88] [00:31.87]He greets me with a courtly bow [00:35.12] [00:37.97]And hides his pain by acting proud [00:41.48] [00:44.12]He drinks too much and he laughs too loud [00:47.84] [00:51.23]How can I deny him [00:53.51] [00:56.71]Let us dance beneath the moon [00:59.99] [01:02.59]I'll sing to you Claire de Lune [01:06.13] [01:08.48]The morning always comes too soon [01:12.52] [01:15.46]But tonight the war is over [01:17.67] [01:24.03]He speaks to me in schoolboy French [01:27.80] [01:29.98]Of a soldier's life inside a trench [01:33.38] [01:36.31]Of the look of death and the ghastly stench [01:40.03] [01:43.14]I do my best to please him [01:45.39] [01:48.35]He puts two roses in a vase [01:51.91] [01:54.31]Two roses sadly out of place [01:57.92] [02:00.33]Like the gallant smile on his haggard face [02:04.14] [02:07.52]Playfully I tease him [02:09.77] [02:12.91]Hold me neath the Paris skies [02:16.23] [02:19.01]Let's not talk of how or why [02:22.12] [02:24.90]Tomorrow's soon enough to die [02:28.11] [02:31.54]But tonight the war is over [02:33.68] [02:40.46]We make love too hard too fast [02:44.03] [02:46.23]He falls asleep his face a mask [02:49.66] [02:52.02]He wakes with the shakes and he drinks from his flask [02:56.50] [02:59.29]I put my arms around him [03:01.17] [03:04.12]They die in the trenches and they die in the air [03:08.21] [03:10.30]In Belguim and France the dead are everywhere [03:13.77] [03:16.37]They die so fast there's no time to prepare [03:20.49] [03:22.22]A decent grave to surround them [03:25.67] [03:28.48]Old world glory old world fame [03:32.84] [03:34.21]The old worlds gone gone up in flames [03:38.03] [03:40.06]Nothing will ever be the same [03:43.51] [03:46.65]And nothing lasts forever [03:48.74] [03:54.89]Oh I'd pray for him but I've forgotten how [03:58.39] [04:00.36]And there's nothing nothing that can save him now [04:03.85] [04:06.81]But there's always another with the same funny bow [04:10.14] [04:12.99]And who am I to deny them [04:15.72] [04:19.30]Lux aeterna Luce at e is [04:22.13] [04:22.91]Domine cum sanctic tu is in aeternum [04:28.19] [04:28.72]Qui a pius es [04:30.56] [04:31.33]Requiem aeternaum dona e is Domine [04:36.54] [04:37.97]Tonight the war is over [04:40.49]Qui a pius es [04:43.33]Lux aeterna Luce at e is [04:47.10]Domine cum sanctic tu is in aeternum [04:52.57]Qui a pius es [04:55.01]Requiem aeternaum dona e is Domine [05:01.11] [05:01.70]Tonight the war is over