Hallucinations? - The Tower III

Song Hallucinations? - The Tower III
Artist In the Nursery
Album Anatomy Of A Poet

Lyrics

[00:17.152] It is time that I wrote my will;
[00:20.652] I choose upstanding men
[00:23.403] That climb the streams until
[00:26.153] The fountain leap, and at dawn
[00:29.653] Drop their cast at the side
[00:31.654] Of dripping stone; I declare
[00:35.654] They shall inherit my pride,
[00:37.904] The pride of people that were
[00:40.154] Bound neither to
[00:41.404] Cause nor to State.
[00:44.404] Neither to slaves that were spat on,
[00:47.154] Nor to the tyrants that spat,
[00:50.904] The people of Burke and of Grattan
[00:53.904] That gave, though free to refuse —
[00:55.655] Pride, like that of the morn,
[00:59.905] When the headlong light is loose,
[01:03.155] Or that of the fabulous horn,
[01:06.406] Or that of the sudden shower
[01:08.405] When all streams are dry,
[01:11.406] Or that of the hour
[01:13.656] When the swan must fix his eye
[01:16.906] Upon a fading gleam,
[01:20.156] Float out upon a long
[01:22.656] Last reach of glittering stream
[01:26.656] And there sing his last song.
[01:31.407] And I declare my faith:
[01:34.657] I mock Plotinus’ thought
[01:37.407] And cry in Plato’s teeth,
[01:40.907] Death and life were not
[01:43.657] Till man made up the whole,
[01:47.409] Made lock, stock and barrel
[01:50.908] Out of his bitter soul,
[01:53.659] Aye, sun and moon and star, all,
[01:57.659] And further add to that
[02:00.659] That, being dead, we rise,
[02:03.908] Dream and so create
[02:06.659] Translunar paradise.
[02:11.910] I have prepared my peace
[02:14.910] With learned Italian things
[02:18.161] And the proud stones of Greece,
[02:21.910] Poet’s imaginings
[02:24.660] And memories of love,
[02:27.911] Memories of the words of women,
[02:31.912] All those things whereof
[02:34.660] Man makes a superhuman,
[02:37.911] Mirror-resembling dream.

Pinyin

[00:17.152] It is time that I wrote my will
[00:20.652] I choose upstanding men
[00:23.403] That climb the streams until
[00:26.153] The fountain leap, and at dawn
[00:29.653] Drop their cast at the side
[00:31.654] Of dripping stone I declare
[00:35.654] They shall inherit my pride,
[00:37.904] The pride of people that were
[00:40.154] Bound neither to
[00:41.404] Cause nor to State.
[00:44.404] Neither to slaves that were spat on,
[00:47.154] Nor to the tyrants that spat,
[00:50.904] The people of Burke and of Grattan
[00:53.904] That gave, though free to refuse
[00:55.655] Pride, like that of the morn,
[00:59.905] When the headlong light is loose,
[01:03.155] Or that of the fabulous horn,
[01:06.406] Or that of the sudden shower
[01:08.405] When all streams are dry,
[01:11.406] Or that of the hour
[01:13.656] When the swan must fix his eye
[01:16.906] Upon a fading gleam,
[01:20.156] Float out upon a long
[01:22.656] Last reach of glittering stream
[01:26.656] And there sing his last song.
[01:31.407] And I declare my faith:
[01:34.657] I mock Plotinus' thought
[01:37.407] And cry in Plato' s teeth,
[01:40.907] Death and life were not
[01:43.657] Till man made up the whole,
[01:47.409] Made lock, stock and barrel
[01:50.908] Out of his bitter soul,
[01:53.659] Aye, sun and moon and star, all,
[01:57.659] And further add to that
[02:00.659] That, being dead, we rise,
[02:03.908] Dream and so create
[02:06.659] Translunar paradise.
[02:11.910] I have prepared my peace
[02:14.910] With learned Italian things
[02:18.161] And the proud stones of Greece,
[02:21.910] Poet' s imaginings
[02:24.660] And memories of love,
[02:27.911] Memories of the words of women,
[02:31.912] All those things whereof
[02:34.660] Man makes a superhuman,
[02:37.911] Mirrorresembling dream.