Time and Again-Noel Coward and Orchestra

[ti:Time and Again] [ar:Noel Coward and Orchestra] [al:The Noel Coward Collection, Vol. 2: I'll See You Again] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Time and Again (一次又一次) - Noel Coward and Orchestra [00:04.88]Life is what you make it [00:06.18] [00:06.92]Someone once observed [00:08.32] [00:09.14]A phrase the sounds a trifle glib [00:11.60] [00:13.61]But whoever thought it out had clearly never sorted out [00:18.11]The vexing problem of Adam's spare rib [00:22.59]Chastity I take it [00:24.24] [00:24.76]Is specially reserved [00:26.86]For those possessing moral fibers [00:30.03] [00:31.35]Mine fail me all the time [00:33.81]And maybe that's the reason I'm [00:36.05]A Baa Baa Black Sheep calling all subscribers [00:41.07] [00:42.21]Time and again [00:43.06] [00:44.04]I'm tortured with contrition [00:45.64] [00:46.38]And swear that I'm sorry I've sinned [00:49.84] [00:50.96]Then when I've think got the whole thing sewn up [00:55.55]I must own up [00:57.80]Everything gets blown up [01:00.23]Freud could explain my curious condition [01:04.10] [01:04.67]And Jung would have certainly grinned [01:07.57] [01:08.88]When I meet some sly dish [01:11.57]That looks like my dish [01:13.78]I'm sunk drunk gone with the wind [01:18.16]How can I start afresh [01:20.39]When the sins of the flesh override me [01:24.70] [01:27.03]Maybe some psycho-analyst [01:30.10]Might slap my wrist [01:32.17]And give a twist [01:33.86]To what goes on inside me [01:37.09]If I could feign [01:38.38] [01:39.01]The glandular transition [01:40.68] [01:41.28]I'd settle for taking the Veil [01:44.43] [01:46.35]Time and again I try time and again I fail [01:53.31] [01:57.70]Moralists disparage [01:59.02] [01:59.82]A variable heart [02:01.19] [02:02.10]And say that it should be fenced in [02:04.41] [02:06.84]But they never think about [02:08.93]Effective means of casting out [02:11.10]That dear old die-hard original sin [02:14.88] [02:15.62]Table d'hôte is marriage [02:17.76]Free love is à la carte [02:19.45] [02:20.00]And once you've crossed forbidden fruits off [02:23.16] [02:24.42]You merely find that you've [02:26.78]Unwittingly set out to prove [02:29.28]The age old saying "better with your boots off " [02:34.31] [02:35.50]Time and again [02:36.53] [02:37.51]I've tried to form a credo [02:39.23] [02:39.76]But some how I don't seem to learn [02:43.44] [02:44.48]Just when I think my guardian angel's winning [02:48.90]I go spinning [02:51.23]Back to the beginning [02:53.34]I can't refrain from firing a torpedo abaft or ahead or astern [03:02.03]If I hit my quarry [03:04.79]I can't feel sorry [03:07.08]I'm hooked cooked done to a turn [03:11.26]Though I frequently wish [03:13.76]I could curb my conditioned reflexes [03:17.90] [03:19.63]I'll be damned if I'll sacrifice [03:23.62]Sugar and spice [03:25.51]To be precise nothing as nice as sex is [03:30.13]I can't restrain my lecherous libido from slipping and tipping the scale [03:38.43] [03:39.47]Time and again I try time and again I fail