The Sun Is Also a Warrior - Leslie Fish.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Leslie Fish
[00:12.070]Two men walked on a beach in the sun.
[00:17.176]One left footprints: the other left none.
[00:21.603]One was a man that no man obeys, the other a god from the ancient days.
[00:34.453]“Look,” said the man, “how my kind make war.
[00:39.450]I summoned you here to ask what for.”
[00:44.800]“For wealth or land,” the god replies, “for life or freedom, or some king’s lies.”
[00:55.436]The sun is also a warrior. Knowledge can also destroy,
[01:04.771]Nor can the kindest will preserve you from the kill.
[01:09.751]Not all of wisdom brings joy.
[01:16.830]“Four of those five,” the first one said, “are not enough to appease the dead.
[01:26.550]To save my world, all this strife must cease.
[01:30.707]So now I bid you to conjure peace.”
[01:38.978]The god said, “Yes, though it grieves me sore, for I was also a god of war,
[01:49.869]And I remember what you forget.
[01:54.361]Four of those five you may still regret.”
[02:02.483]The sun is also a warrior. Knowledge can also destroy,
[02:11.833]Nor can the kindest will preserve you from the kill.
[02:16.751]Not all of wisdom brings joy.
[02:24.290]He raised his voice and he raised his hand.
[02:28.850]All strife stopped at the god’s command.
[02:33.700]No voice ventured an angry word.
[02:37.870]No hand struck, and no weapon stirred.
[03:07.000]In time the man called the old god back.
[03:12.423]“Look,” he cried, “what my people lack.
[03:16.900]One lord rules over all the Earth, and we’re all his slaves from the hour of birth.”
[03:29.552]The sun is also a warrior. Knowledge can also destroy,
[03:38.900]Nor can the kindest will preserve you from the kill.
[03:43.819]Not all of wisdom brings joy.
[03:50.804]“He owns all wealth, and he owns all land.
[03:55.811]We starve and die under his command.
[04:00.170]He speaks the truth and he gives us peace, but all that I hope for is our release.”
[04:13.223]The old god said: “This is what you willed.
[04:18.330]Only thus is your wish fulfilled.
[04:23.866]War’s five sources I took away, yet I will give four of them back today.”
[04:36.537]The sun is also a warrior. Knowledge can also destroy,
[04:45.900]Nor can the kindest will preserve you from the kill.
[04:50.903]Not all of wisdom brings joy.
[04:57.819]He raised his hand and his voice once more, and all the world overturned in war.
[05:07.200]And when the last of those fires let fall, there was no lord in the world at all.
[05:20.320]“Go rebuild now,” the old god said.
[05:25.004]“Feed the living, and bury the dead.
[05:30.752]Remember this when you speak of war, and think upon what is worth fighting for.”
[05:47.171]The sun is also a warrior. Knowledge can also destroy,
[05:56.502]Nor can the kindest will preserve you from the kill.
[06:01.519]Not all of wisdom brings joy.
[06:06.301]Not all of wisdom brings joy.