Darby's Castle (Album Version)-Kris Kristofferson

[ti:Darby's Castle (Album Version)] [ar:Kris Kristofferson] [al:Kristofferson] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darby's Castle (达比的城堡) (Album Version) - Kris Kristofferson (克里斯·克里斯托佛森) [00:06.54]See the ruin on the hill where the smoke is hanging still [00:12.62] [00:13.26]Like an echo of an age long forgotten; [00:17.75] [00:19.57]There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones [00:25.47] [00:26.10]And the roof which fell before the beams were rotten [00:30.85] [00:35.16]Cecil darby loved his wife and he laboured all his life [00:41.20] [00:41.77]To provide her with material possessions; [00:46.43] [00:48.35]And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone [00:53.68] [00:54.62]And the building soon became his sole obsession [00:59.02] [01:03.91] Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised [01:09.66] [01:10.43]And the silhouette was seen for miles around; [01:14.58] [01:16.52]And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky [01:22.23] [01:22.76]-But it only took one night to bring it down [01:26.86] [01:29.12]When darby's castle tumbled to the ground [01:33.38] [01:38.46]Though they shared a common bed there was precious little said [01:44.09] [01:44.93]In the moments that were set aside for sleeping: [01:49.41] [01:50.92]For his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build [01:57.14]And he never heard young ellen darby weeping [02:01.66] [02:06.25]Then one night he heard a sound as he laid his pencil down [02:12.21] [02:12.89]And he traced it to her door and turned the handle; [02:17.51] [02:18.88]And the pale light of the moon through the window of the room [02:24.38] [02:24.97]Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled [02:30.12] [02:34.15]Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised [02:40.48]And the silhouette was seen for miles around; [02:45.14] [02:46.34]And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky - [02:52.46]But it only took one night to bring it down [02:56.93] [02:58.76]When darby's castle tumbled to the ground