1917-Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:04.98]The strange young man who comes to me [00:10.62]A soldier on a three day spree [00:16.11]Who needs one night's cheap ecstasy [00:18.18]And a woman's arms to hide him [00:25.59]He greets me with a courtly bow [00:27.48]And hides his pain by acting proud [00:32.00]He drinks too much and he laughs too loud [00:35.37]How can I deny him [00:36.24]Let us dance beneath the moon [00:39.93]I'll sing to you Claire de Lune' [01:12.33]The morning always comes too soon [01:15.33]But tonight the war is over [01:23.19]He speaks to me in schoolboy French [01:27.42]Of a soldier's life inside a trench [01:32.16]Of the look of death and the ghastly stench [01:36.12]I do my best to please him [01:42.00]He puts two roses in a vase [01:46.47]Two roses sadly out of place [01:48.75]Like the gallant smile on his haggard face [01:55.20]Playfully I tease him [02:00.00]Hold me 'neath the Paris skies [02:08.10]Let's not talk of how or why [02:17.76]Tomorrow's soon enough to die [02:20.13]But tonight the war is over [02:25.32]We make love too hard too fast [03:02.82]He falls asleep his face a mask [03:07.95]He wakes with the shakes and he drinks from his flask [03:21.18]I put my arms around him [03:55.89]They die in the trenches and they die in the air [03:57.45]In Belgium and France the dead are everywhere [03:59.10]They die so fast there's no time to prepare [04:02.10]A decent grave to surround them [04:03.30]Old world glory old world fame [04:06.57]The old world's gone gone up in flames [04:14.76]Nothing will ever be the same [04:17.55]And nothing lasts forever [04:18.66]Oh I'd pray for him but I've forgotten how [04:20.57]And there's nothing nothing that can save him now [04:24.00]There's always another with the same funny bow [04:27.18]And who am I to deny them