Here I stand...'-Igor Stravinsky

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具V2.0_20200810] [offset:0] [00:00.06]TOM [00:00.45]The old fool [00:00.99] [00:04.23]Recitative [00:04.65]Here I stand my constitution sound my frame [00:05.88] [00:06.96]Not ill favoured my wit ready my heart light [00:14.31] [00:16.56]I play the industrious apprentice in a copybook [00:20.16] [00:21.60]I submit to the drudge's yoke [00:22.29] [00:22.80]I slave through a lifetime to enrich others [00:27.51]And then be thrown away like a gnawed bone Not I [00:31.41] [00:34.17]Have not grave doctors assured us that good works [00:35.97]Are of no avail for heaven predestines all [00:41.07]In my fashion I may profess myself of their party [00:44.76] [00:46.26]And herewith entrust myself to Fortune [00:48.03] [00:49.65]Aria [00:49.77] [00:55.50]Since it is not by merit [00:58.62]We rise or we fall [00:59.94] [01:01.02]But the favour of Fortune [01:06.30]That governs us all [01:12.18]Why should I labour [01:14.22] [01:18.87]For what in the end [01:21.78]She will give me for nothing [01:33.72] [01:35.85]If she be my friend [01:39.33]While if she be not [01:46.56] [01:48.60]Why the wealth I might gain [01:57.51]For a time by my toil [02:03.81]Would at last be in vain [02:08.34] [02:09.21]Till I die then of fever [02:11.10] [02:17.97]Or by lightning am struck [02:19.38] [02:20.13]Let me live by my wits [02:32.73]And trust to my luck