歌曲名 The Fountain of Salmacis (Live at Royal Albert Hall 2013 - Remaster 2020)

歌手名 Steve Hackett

作词：Steve Hackett

作曲：Mike Rutherford/Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Gabriel/Hackett

From a dense forest of tall dark pinewood

Mount Ida rises like an island

Within a hidden cave nymphs had kept a child

Hermaphroditus son of gods so afraid of their love

As the dawn creeps up the sky

The hunter caught sight of a doe

In desire for conquest

He found himself within a glade

he'd not beheld before

Where are you my father

Then he could go no further

Give wisdom to your son

Now lost the boy was guided by the sun

And as his strength began to fail

He saw a shimmering lake

A shadow in the dark green depths

Disturbed the strange tranquility

The waters are disturbed

The waters are disturbed

Some creature has been stirred

Naiad queen Salmacis has been stirred

As he rushed to quench his thirst

A fountain spring appeared before him

And as his heated breath brushed through the cool mist

A liquid voice called Son of gods drink from my spring

The water tasted strangely sweet

Behind him the voice called again

He turned and saw her in a cloak of mist alone

And as he gazed her eyes were filled

with the darkness of the lake

'We shall be one 'She wanted them as one

We shall be joined as one'

Yet he had no desire to be one'

Away from me cold-blooded woman

Your thirst is not mine

Nothing will cause us to part

Hear me O Gods

Unearthly calm ascended from the sky

And then their flesh

and bones were strangely merged

Forever to be joined as one

The creature crawled into the lake

A fading voice was heard：

And I beg yes I beg

that all who touch this spring

May share my fate

We are the one

The two are now made one

We are the one

Demi-god and nymph are now made one

Both had given everything they had

A lover's dream had been fulfilled at last

Forever still beneath the lake