The Night The Band Got The Wine-Al Stewart

[ti:The Night The Band Got The Wine] [ar:Al Stewart] [al:Down In The Cellar] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]The Night The Band Got The Wine - Al Stewart (阿尔·史蒂伍德) [00:00.02] [00:13.24]The earthquake hit at 6:19 with a jolt [00:16.49] [00:18.04]People went running for the doorways [00:20.04] [00:20.60]And for the next half minute it shook [00:22.85] [00:24.48]Up on the 17th floor the sommelier was opening the [00:31.03]Wine [00:31.65]He knew the great hotel was solidly built [00:34.14] [00:34.83]Still it must have been a miracle thatnothing got spilt [00:37.90]Terry O'Shea got up from the Chippendale chair [00:41.28] [00:42.90]Talking on the telephone [00:44.52]Looking perplexed waving a hand in the air [00:47.95] [00:48.82]In the great room all alone [00:50.75]Fifty years old today a microdot billionaire [00:56.94]Putting on a party like a Hollywood guy [00:59.26] [00:59.89]With all the food and wine that his money could buy [01:03.07]The band came in arguing as usual [01:06.07]About nothing in particular [01:07.28]It always seemed to be this way [01:09.41] [01:10.16]Tuning up andputting out setlists [01:12.23]Of all the stupid songs that musicians hate to play [01:15.60] [01:16.28]Still it could be better than usual [01:18.55]The food looked great and it was money not glory [01:21.26]So when the clock struck eight [01:24.35]They began the theme from Love Story [01:27.93] [01:29.63]Time went by with no one arriving at all [01:32.88] [01:34.40]It was just Terry and the pictures [01:36.40] [01:37.40]Of dead people frowning from the wall [01:39.53] [01:40.27]They didn't look very pleased [01:42.22]It was completely clear nobody was coming [01:48.08]They were all staying home with their earthquake kits [01:51.16]Waiting for thge aftershocks to hit [01:53.97] [01:54.59]Thirty decanters of wine sat ready to pout [01:57.84] [01:59.40]1961 Margaux and Petrus and Chateau Latour [02:04.14] [02:05.39]Swaying in unison [02:06.96]Lobstrer and caviar shrimp and salmon [02:12.94]They were all laid out with artistic flair [02:16.18]The waiters were already eyeing their share [02:19.42]Teryy got up and he said Enough [02:22.32]And told the band to stop playing that dreadful stuff [02:25.94] [02:26.62]He made them all come over to the table [02:28.36]And gave them wine that they had never dreamt of [02:32.17] [02:32.79]So they worked their way through the burgundy and port [02:36.03]And started to relax [02:38.91]They discovered thay had more in common than they thought [02:42.03] [02:42.90]And so they went back [02:46.03]Over to the stand and started playing again [02:49.03] [02:50.72]But this time differently [02:52.34]It got loud and louder and fairly insane [02:55.48] [02:56.79]People heard it down in the street [02:59.09]It felt so good they were smiling at each other [03:04.66]The waiters all ran out covering their ears [03:07.65]There was plaster from the ceiling on the crystal chandeliers [03:10.29] [03:10.92]Terry was dancing like a madman andwaving his hands [03:14.23] [03:15.61]At anything and everything [03:17.30]Kicking up the dust from the carpet and doing handstands [03:20.23] [03:21.85]Cackling and yodeling [03:22.91] [03:23.54]This was a birthday bash he hadn't anticipated [03:29.17]Spinning like a top in the middle of the room [03:32.54]While the hotel shook to a sonic boom [03:35.05] [04:01.03]After a while he passed out cold on the floor [04:04.46] [04:05.33]And dreamed revealing things [04:07.23] [04:08.09]Then he didn't have computers anymore [04:10.47] [04:11.59]Or fawning underlings [04:13.90]He was running through the trees on a tropical isle [04:16.52] [04:17.97]No more feeling tense [04:20.16]In a flower pattern shirt of quetionable style [04:23.02] [04:23.96]It all made sense [04:26.10] [04:27.60]The band went back to their homes in the Hollywood hills [04:30.71] [04:32.15]Better than they'd ever felt [04:33.84]Waking up their sleep-addled wives with rambling tales [04:36.94] [04:38.00]It didn't go down very well [04:40.09]But as a legacy they called a band meeting [04:46.20]And decided they were going to give up playing covers [04:48.96]From that day on they got along with one anothoer [04:52.45]Terry woke up and strange as the story may seem [04:55.89] [04:57.26]Though he felt terrible [04:58.63]He found withthe dawn he could still remember his dream [05:02.05] [05:03.31]So ge just fell away [05:05.00]Nobody's seen him since [05:07.87] [05:09.22]But I like to think of him [05:11.41]Sitting on a beach like Gaugin wearing a smile [05:14.46] [05:17.53]Waiting for the brown-eyed girl she'll be there in a while [05:20.96] [05:23.78]Maybe thinking back now and then to a long ago time [05:27.18] [05:29.73]The night that the band got the wine [05:32.99] [05:35.37]The night that the band got the wine [05:39.06] [05:41.92]The night that the band assign the sign [05:47.61] [05:48.61]The night that the band got the wine