[00:00.00] 作词 : Cale[00:14.88]She was so afraid[00:16.56]Since her mother, white with time,[00:28.41]Told her[00:39.36]She was a failure.[01:02.07]She was so ashamed[01:02.43]Of everything she said[01:10.92]And everything she did[01:12.84]For her mother, white with time.[01:27.96]Everything around her mother[01:31.71]White with time.[01:42.36]And dirty.[01:52.71]Her mother was greedy with dirt.[02:00.72]Greedy.[02:12.57]Then she heard choirs of angels,[02:22.29]Singing choirs of angels,[02:27.36]Greedy angels,[02:38.94]Spitting glory on her failure.[02:48.87]That stardust of failure,[02:55.74]As if it was medicine[02:57.81]That didn't work,[03:01.38]Anyway.[03:05.58]Anyway[03:08.85]The windows they were closed[03:17.19]And the midwives had locked their doors.[03:25.92]They didn't understand.[03:33.03]And after all what was there to understand?[03:38.13]But the angels, sheer choirs of angels,[03:48.96]In a friendship.[03:53.04]No, more than a friendship,[03:55.32]It was a marriage, a marriage made in the grave.[04:06.39]In shivering night,[04:12.87]The searching of the river continued.[04:23.37]The bullet of searchlight,[04:28.98]That searchlight found her so cockleshell and sure,[04:33.60]Sick and tired of what she saw,[04:54.87]But cockleshell and sure.[04:55.38]Sure of what the world had offered a tired soul.[05:04.83]From Istanbul to Madrid,[05:17.49]From Reykjavik, to Bonn,[05:23.70]To Leipzig, to Leningrad,[05:27.42]To Shanghai, Pnonm Penh,[05:38.91]All so that it would be a stronger world[05:47.34]A strong though loving world to die in.