Wartime Prayers-Paul Simon

[ti:Wartime Prayers] [ar:Paul Simon] [al:Surprise] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Wartime Prayers - Paul Simon (保罗·西蒙) [00:21.06]Prayers offered in times of peace [00:24.86] [00:27.36]Are silent conversations [00:30.91] [00:32.92]Appeals for love or love's release [00:39.65] [00:42.50]In private invocations [00:45.48] [00:48.54]But all that is changed now [00:52.47] [00:55.63]Gone like a memory from the day before the fires [01:01.51] [01:05.04]People hungry for the voice of God [01:08.92] [01:10.70]Hear lunatics and liars [01:12.67] [01:18.29]Wartime prayers [01:19.67] [01:20.85]Wartime prayers [01:23.29] [01:24.98]In every language spoken [01:28.35] [01:30.29]For every family scattered and broken [01:35.72] [01:53.94]Because you cannot walk with the holy [01:57.08]If you're just a halfway decent man [02:00.26]I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind [02:03.56] [02:04.07]With a genius marketing plan [02:06.45] [02:07.51]I'm trying to tap into some wisdom [02:11.01]Even a little drop will do [02:14.31]I want to rid my heart of envy [02:17.94] [02:18.81]And cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through [02:23.82] [02:31.22]Times are hard it's a hard time [02:35.00]But everybody knows [02:36.75]All about hard times the thing is [02:40.58] [02:41.62]What are you gonna do [02:43.37] [02:44.23]Well you cry and try to muscle through [02:53.33] [02:54.52]And try to rearrange your stuff [02:57.64] [02:58.33]But when the wounds are deep enough [03:01.57] [03:02.31]And it's all that we can bear [03:06.96]We wrap ourselves in prayer [03:16.72] [03:20.39]Because you cannot walk with the holy [03:23.94]If you're just a halfway decent man [03:26.59] [03:27.21]I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind [03:30.46] [03:31.08]With a genius marketing plan [03:33.45] [03:34.02]I'm trying to tap into some wisdom [03:37.38] [03:38.13]Even a little drop will do [03:41.01] [03:41.90]I want to rid my heart of envy [03:45.58] [03:46.14]And cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through [03:50.77] [03:58.90]A mother murmurs in twilight sleep [04:03.20] [04:05.29]And draws her babies closer [04:07.96] [04:12.64]With hush a byes for sleepy eyes [04:18.18] [04:19.55]And kisses on the shoulder [04:24.11] [04:26.67]To drive away despair [04:29.90] [04:34.46]She says a wartime prayer