歌曲名 Dead London (Part 1)

歌手名 Jeff Wayne/Richard Burton

作词：Jeff Wayne

作曲：Jeff Wayne

There were a dozen dead bodies in the Euston road

their bodies softened by the black dust

All was still houses locked and empty

shops closed but looters had helped themselves

to wine and food and outside a jewellers

some gold chains and a watch were scattered

on the pavement

I stopped staring toward the sound

It seemed as if that mighty desert of house

had found a voice for its fear and solitude

The desolating cry worked upon my mind

The wailing took possession of me

I was intensely weary footsore hungry and thirsty

Why was I wandering alone in this city of the dead

Why was I alive when London in state in its black shroud

I felt intolerably lonely drifting from street to empty street

drawn inexorably towards that cr

I saw over the trees on Primrose hill

the fighting machine from which the howling came

I crossed Regents Canal

There stood a second machine upright

but as still as the first

Abruptly the sound ceased Suddenly

the desolation the solitude became unendurable

While that voice sounded

London had still seemed alive

Now suddenly there was a change the passing

of something and all that remained

was this gaunt quiet

I looked up and saw a third machine

It was erect and motionless like the others

An inane resolve possessed me

I would give my life to the Martians here and now

I marched recklessly towards the titan and saw

that a multitude of black birds was circling

and clustering about the hood

I began running along the road I felt no fear

only a wild trembling exultation

as I ran up the hill towards the motionless monster

Out of the hood hung red shreds

at which the hungry birds now pecked and tore

I scrambled up to the crest of Primrose Hill

and the Martians camp was below me

A mighty space it was and scattered about it

in their overturned machines were the Martians - dead

slain after all man's devices had failed

by the humblest things upon the Earth

bacteria Minute invisible bacteria

Directly the invaders arrived and drank and fed

our microscopic allies attacked them

From that moment they were doomed