Slouching Towards Bethlehem-Joni Mitchell

[ti:Slouching Towards Bethlehem] [ar:Joni Mitchell] [al:Travelogue CD 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joni Mitchell (琼尼·米契儿) [00:42.46]Turning and turning within the widening gyre [00:52.05]The falcon cannot hear the falconer [00:59.37]Things fall apart the center cannot hold [01:08.58]And a blood dimmed tide is [01:11.56]Loosed upon the world [01:18.75]Nothing is sacred the ceremony sinks [01:28.57]Innocence is drowned in anarchy [01:35.29]The best lack conviction [01:41.04]Given some time to think [01:44.69]And the worst are full [01:46.07]Of passion without mercy [01:54.90]Surely some revelation is at hand [02:00.56]Surely it's the second coming [02:02.17]And the wrath has finally taken form [02:06.04]For what is this rough beast [02:08.46]It's hour come at last [02:14.38]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [02:20.13]Slouching towards [02:21.48]Bethlehem to be born oh [02:33.42]To be born [02:48.75]Hoping and hoping as [02:53.55]If by my weak faith [02:57.69]The spirit of this world would heal and rise [03:04.76]Vast are the shadows [03:10.22]That straddle and strafe [03:14.24]And struggle in the darkness [03:17.53]Troubling my eyes [03:24.24]Shaped like a lion [03:29.84]It has the head of a man [03:33.62]With a gaze as blank [03:36.43]And pitiless as the sun [03:40.69]And it's moving it's slow thighs [03:46.54]Across the desert sands [03:50.53]Through dark indignant reeling falcons [04:00.55]Surely some revelation is at hand [04:05.95]Surely it's the second coming [04:07.63]And the wrath has finally taken form [04:11.36]For what is this rough beast [04:14.35]It's hour come at last [04:19.96]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:25.64]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [04:29.71]Oh oh yeah [04:32.72]Hey hey Bethlehem [04:47.59]Shape of a lion [04:53.91]Raging and raging it rises from the deep [05:03.39]Opening it's eyes after twenty centuries [05:10.28]Vexed to a nightmare [05:15.88]Out of a stony sleep [05:19.69]By a rocking cradle [05:22.28]By the sea of Galilee [05:29.76]Surely some revelation is at hand [05:35.36]Surely it's the second coming [05:37.20]And the wrath has finally taken form [05:40.90]For what is this rough beast [05:43.53]It's hour come at last [05:49.18]Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born [05:54.91]Slouching towards Bethlehem [05:56.83]To be born oh oh yeah [06:03.49]Hey shape of a lion oh oh [06:16.93]Just the shape of a lion [06:24.35]Hey Bethlehem [06:28.18]Shape of a lion