[00:00.000] 作词 : Richard Dawson[00:01.000] 作曲 : Richard Dawson[00:32.457] I play the role of a fool[00:36.569] The townsfolk’s fulcrum of ridicule[00:42.646] Off to appear through prisming beer[00:47.835] To the newly-arrived here[00:51.590] Not as I am, but how they prefer[00:57.441] I saw Ruth atop a dun Clydesdale[01:02.837] In a pilgrim’s caravan[01:06.117] Queueing at the toll-house now and[01:10.118] Then revealed by a sheet of lightning[01:15.876] My heart stolen in a flash[01:22.347] Morning up, I went to their camp[01:30.907] A cross-eye juvenile ushered me to the orchard[01:38.170] Where she lay sketching the spires of the college[01:46.045] And bade me welcome as if we were old friends[02:24.996] Ruth and I were inseperable[02:29.423] Over the course of that haunted spring[02:35.332] Our midnight trysts unquietly twisted[02:41.220] The blade of our bodies in a wound made[02:44.564] Several hundred lifespans ago[02:50.844] At the end of a skull-lined avenue[02:56.140] In the almshouse catacombs[02:59.467] She looked me in the eyes and[03:03.383] Sadly said: “My darling[03:08.903] I don’t want this to happen anymore”[03:15.491] Love is old, older than the sun[03:23.761] A dreadful magic, more powerful than evil[03:31.282] Love, love is old, older than the sun[03:39.306] The impossible engine of a hidden world[03:48.699] Down at the wharf, I watched them load[03:56.204] Their frightened animals aboard a waiting flyboat[04:03.739] I hurled my bottle of wine into it’s foamy wake[04:11.214] And made a promise I could never not break[04:20.859] Love is old, older than the sun[04:29.060] A dreadful magic, more powerful than evil[04:36.470] Love, love is old, older than the sun[04:44.243] Older than the sun, oh-ah-ah-ah[04:51.582] Love, love is old, ah-ah-ah-ah[04:59.138] Love, love is old, ah-ah-ah[05:06.947] Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah[05:15.301] Love is old, love is old[05:22.094] Love, love is older, older than the sun