Song | I Had a King |
Artist | Joni Mitchell |
Album | Song to a Seagull |
作词 : Mitchell | |
I had a king in a tenement castle | |
Lately he's taken to painting the pastel walls brown | |
He's taken the curtains down, he's swept with the broom of contempt | |
And the rooms have an empty ring, he's cleaned with the tears | |
Of an actor who fears for the laughter's sting- | |
I can't go back there anymore | |
You know my keys won't fit the door | |
You know my thoughts don't fit the man | |
They never can, they never can | |
I had a king dressed in drip-dry and paisley | |
Lately he's taken to saying | |
I'm crazy and blind | |
He lives in another time, ladies in | |
Gingham still blush | |
While he sings them of wars and wine | |
But I in my leather and lacem | |
I can never become that kind | |
I can't go back there anymore | |
You know my keys won't fit the door | |
You know my thoughts don't fit the man | |
They never can, they never can | |
I had a king in a salt-rusted carriage | |
Who carried me off to his country for marriage too soon | |
Beware of the power of moons, there's no one to blame | |
No there's no one to name as a traitor here | |
The king's on the road and the queen's in the grove till the end of the year | |
I can't go back there anymore | |
You know my keys won't fit the door | |
You know my thoughts don't fit the man | |
They never can, they never can | |
They never can, they never can |
zuò cí : Mitchell | |
I had a king in a tenement castle | |
Lately he' s taken to painting the pastel walls brown | |
He' s taken the curtains down, he' s swept with the broom of contempt | |
And the rooms have an empty ring, he' s cleaned with the tears | |
Of an actor who fears for the laughter' s sting | |
I can' t go back there anymore | |
You know my keys won' t fit the door | |
You know my thoughts don' t fit the man | |
They never can, they never can | |
I had a king dressed in dripdry and paisley | |
Lately he' s taken to saying | |
I' m crazy and blind | |
He lives in another time, ladies in | |
Gingham still blush | |
While he sings them of wars and wine | |
But I in my leather and lacem | |
I can never become that kind | |
I can' t go back there anymore | |
You know my keys won' t fit the door | |
You know my thoughts don' t fit the man | |
They never can, they never can | |
I had a king in a saltrusted carriage | |
Who carried me off to his country for marriage too soon | |
Beware of the power of moons, there' s no one to blame | |
No there' s no one to name as a traitor here | |
The king' s on the road and the queen' s in the grove till the end of the year | |
I can' t go back there anymore | |
You know my keys won' t fit the door | |
You know my thoughts don' t fit the man | |
They never can, they never can | |
They never can, they never can |