A Boy In Darkness

Song A Boy In Darkness
Artist Big Big Train
Album English Electric: Full Power

Lyrics

[00:00.00] 作曲 : David Ashley Longdon
[00:19.20] Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842
[00:20.79] Extract from Sub Commissioner’s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries.
[00:27.30] “His name is Godfrey Fletcher
[00:29.01] Eleven years old
[00:29.40] Worked these pits for nearly three years
[00:30.99] Does not know the alphabet
[00:34.41] Cannot read in the least”
[00:35.82] The pit shall keep him body and soul
[00:55.11] But better that than going to school
[01:01.98] Or ploughing the field
[01:02.37] Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist’s sermon down here
[01:24.69] In the awesome stillness
[01:26.82] of the deep black
[01:27.15] A Boy in Darkness
[02:04.89] The seam they work is more than a yard
[02:11.25] The headway here is nearly four feet
[02:15.24] He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind
[02:23.43] Deep down here in the dry and the heat
[04:58.44] A Boy in Darkness
[04:58.80] Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time
[05:03.45] Part 3: Present Times
[05:03.93] Once upon a time
[05:04.29] A secret shared
[05:28.41] Threatened not to breathe a word
[05:32.58] To a living soul
[05:39.63] Especially mother...
[05:40.35] He was just a boy
[05:44.07] But even though
[05:44.34] It wasn’t the way it’s supposed to go
[05:46.68] Needed a father
[05:56.82] Not this hunter
[05:57.18] To speak of the unspeakable
[05:58.08] Takes guts and nerve
[06:00.87] It’s going to disturb
[06:02.58] He can’t bring himself to say the words
[06:09.93] Misplaced blind faith
[06:12.24] In church and state
[06:15.63] Tied up in too much red tape
[06:18.69] If help comes, pray not too late
[06:25.32] We face ourselves
[06:29.85] Look long and hard
[06:30.27] Make the difference
[06:31.38] A safer place
[06:33.51] But most of all
[06:34.17] Don’t be afraid
[06:36.75] To shine
[06:36.90] Light
[06:37.02] Into the dark
[06:37.38] A Boy in Darkness

Pinyin

[00:00.00] zuò qǔ : David Ashley Longdon
[00:19.20] Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842
[00:20.79] Extract from Sub Commissioner' s report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries.
[00:27.30] " His name is Godfrey Fletcher
[00:29.01] Eleven years old
[00:29.40] Worked these pits for nearly three years
[00:30.99] Does not know the alphabet
[00:34.41] Cannot read in the least"
[00:35.82] The pit shall keep him body and soul
[00:55.11] But better that than going to school
[01:01.98] Or ploughing the field
[01:02.37] Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist' s sermon down here
[01:24.69] In the awesome stillness
[01:26.82] of the deep black
[01:27.15] A Boy in Darkness
[02:04.89] The seam they work is more than a yard
[02:11.25] The headway here is nearly four feet
[02:15.24] He hears the eerie sound of the whistling wind
[02:23.43] Deep down here in the dry and the heat
[04:58.44] A Boy in Darkness
[04:58.80] Part 2: The March of Progress, Enlightenment and the Passing of Time
[05:03.45] Part 3: Present Times
[05:03.93] Once upon a time
[05:04.29] A secret shared
[05:28.41] Threatened not to breathe a word
[05:32.58] To a living soul
[05:39.63] Especially mother...
[05:40.35] He was just a boy
[05:44.07] But even though
[05:44.34] It wasn' t the way it' s supposed to go
[05:46.68] Needed a father
[05:56.82] Not this hunter
[05:57.18] To speak of the unspeakable
[05:58.08] Takes guts and nerve
[06:00.87] It' s going to disturb
[06:02.58] He can' t bring himself to say the words
[06:09.93] Misplaced blind faith
[06:12.24] In church and state
[06:15.63] Tied up in too much red tape
[06:18.69] If help comes, pray not too late
[06:25.32] We face ourselves
[06:29.85] Look long and hard
[06:30.27] Make the difference
[06:31.38] A safer place
[06:33.51] But most of all
[06:34.17] Don' t be afraid
[06:36.75] To shine
[06:36.90] Light
[06:37.02] Into the dark
[06:37.38] A Boy in Darkness