歌曲名 Scorched Earth 歌手名 Van Der Graaf Generator

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Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast

he looks into the future and

remembers what it past

wonders what he's doing on this battlefield

shrugs to his shadow

impatient too proud yet to kneel

In his wake he leaves

scorched earth and work in vain

smoke drifts up behind him he is free again

free to run before the onslaught of a deadly foe

leaving nothing fit for pillage

hardly leaving home

It's far too late to turn unless it's to stone

Charging madly forward tracks across the snow

wind screams madness to him ever on he goes

leaving spoor to mark

his passage trace his weary climb

Cross the moor and make the headland

stumbling wayward blind

In the end his footprints extend as one single line

This latest exponent of heresy is

goaded into an attack

persuaded to charge at his enemy

Too late he knows it is too late

know to turn back

too soon by far to falter

The past sits uneasily at his rear

he's walking right into the trap

surrounded but striving through will and fear

Ahead of him he knows there

waits an ambuscade

but the dice slips through his fingers

and he's living from day to day

carrying his world around upon his back

leaving nothing behind but the

tell tale of his track

He will not be hostage he will not be slave

no snare of past can trap him

though the future may

Still he runs and burns behind

him in advanced retreat

still his life remains unfettered he denies defeat

It's far too late to turn unless it's to stone

Leave the past to burn at least

that's been his own

Scorched earth that's all

that's left when he's done

holding nothing but beholden to no one

claiming nothing out of

no false pride he survived

Snow tracks are all that's left to be seen

of a man who entered the course of a dream

claiming nothing but the life he's known

this at least has been his own