[00:00.000] 作曲 : The Mechanisms
[00:00.943] Deep in my cups and my whiskey
[00:06.426] Sometimes the screaming will cease
[00:11.046] Free-flowing tears fall unnoticed
[00:15.852] Numbness my only release
[00:20.281] Some soldiers will tell you that warfare
[00:25.353] Is just one more title for Hell
[00:30.384] I wonder if devils get nightmares
[00:35.542] Of all of their victims as well
[00:39.509] Broken horses, staring and still
[00:47.508] Broken horses, like all those I killed
[00:54.763] Broken horses, riding me down
[01:02.373] Broken horses
[01:06.843] Broken horses
[01:10.685] See, Ulysses the drunk was once Ulysses the soldier,
[01:15.612] and a high-ranking one too.
[01:17.900] So it was they found themselves fighting at the siege of Ilium some twenty years ago.
[01:24.407] It was a brutal war of attrition against one of the best-defended districts of the city.
[01:29.294] A war that Ulysses the soldier was determined to win.
[01:39.323] After a decade of fighting
[01:43.442] Still their defences stood firm
[01:47.153] Heartless and cunning and scheming
[01:50.924] Victory I would confirm
[01:54.507] Offering peace and departing
[01:58.154] We honoured our valiant foes
[02:01.541] A statue that I had designed them
[02:05.175] Sending a message of hope
[02:07.992] And broken horses, all that I built were
[02:15.540] Broken horses, shattered by guilt
[02:22.453] Broken horses, I can't outrun these
[02:30.071] Broken horses
[02:33.323] Broken horses
[02:38.736] Ulysses proposed a solution.
[02:40.658] Peace and independence for Ilium, free from the city’s clutches.
[02:45.108] Accords were drawn up, treaties were signed,
[02:49.999] and to commemorate this historic occasion, a vast statue was commissioned,
[02:55.897] honouring the districts' history as famed breeders of horses,
[02:59.240] back when such beasts still existed.
[03:02.685] It was scanned for bioweapons, it was scanned for explosives, it was scanned for hidden soldiers.
[03:08.912] None were found.
[03:12.283] And the gift was accepted, and joy was unconfined.
[03:23.983] It was not, however,
[03:25.258] scanned for a faint, almost inaudible signal being broadcast of Ulysses’ own design,
[03:32.218] intended to gradually drive the listener to madness.
[03:37.991] Within a week, all in Ilium was ripping and rending and tearing and blood.
[03:45.873] When they finally opened the gates, there were none left alive.
[03:51.035] The war was over.
[04:38.211] Sometimes it’s hard to remember
[04:43.342] The city was not always here
[04:48.082] Animals long since extinguished
[04:52.526] Roaming with nothing to fear
[04:57.192] Once they were known as equestrians
[05:01.881] And Ilium honoured its past
[05:07.336] Statues are all that remain now
[05:10.928] Their riders have fallen at last
[05:14.576] From broken horses, silent and stone
[05:22.575] Broken horses, like cracked and fractured bone
[05:30.368] Broken horses, all because of me
[05:38.335] Broken horses
[05:42.609] Broken horses
[05:46.060] Broken...