The Rock - Harry Chapin

作词：Alan Schwartzberg/Don Payne/Harry Chapin/Harry Chapin/John Tropea/John Wallace/Ron Bacchiocchi/Steve Chapin/Tom Chapin

作曲：Harry Chapin/Alan Schwartzberg/Don Payne/Harry Chapin/Harry Chapin/John Tropea/John Wallace/Ron Bacchiocchi/Steve Chapin/Tom Chapin

The rock is gonna fall on us

He woke with a start

And he ran to his mother

The fear dark in his heart

And he told her of the vision

That he was sure he'd seen

She said go back to sleep son

You're having a bad dream

Silly child

Everybody knows the rock leans over the town

Everybody knows

that it won't tumble to the ground

Remember chicken

little said the sky was falling down

Well nothing ever came of that

The world still whirls around

The rock is gonna fall on us he stood

And told the class

The professor put his chalk down

And peered out through his glasses

But he went on and said I've seen it

High up on the hill

If it doesn't fall this year

Then very soon it will

Crazy boy

Everybody knows the rock leans over the town

Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground

We've more important studies than your fantasies

And fears

You know that rock's been perched up

there for a hundred thousand years

The rock is gonna fall on us he told the magistrates

I believe that we can stop it but the

Time is getting late

You see I've done all the research

My plans are all complete

He was showing them contingencies

When they showed him to the street

Just a madman

Everybody knows the rock leans over the town

Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground

Everybody knows of those who say the end is near

Everybody knows

that life goes on as usual 'round here

He went up on the mountain beside the giant stone

They knew he was insane so they left him all alone

He'd given up enlisting

help for there was no one else

He spent his days devising ways to stop

The rock himself

One night while he was working building

Braces on the ledge

The ground began to rumble the rock

Trembled on the edge

The rock is gonna fall on us run or

You'll all be crushed

And indeed the rock was moving

Crumbling all to dust

He ran under it with one last hope

That he could add a prop

And as he disappeared

The rock came to a stop

The people ran into the street

But by then all was still

The rock seemed where it always was

Or where it always will be

When someone asked where he had gone

They said oh he was daft

Who cares about that crazy fool and

Then they'd start to laugh

But high up on the mountain

When the wind is hitting it

If you're watching very closely

The rock

Slips

A little

Bit