歌手:David Bowie
专辑:《David Bowie In Bertolt Brecht's Baal》

作曲 : Dominic Muldowney/Bertholt Brecht
Baal's Hymn - David Bowie

Whilst his mother's womb
Contained the growing Baal

Even then the sky was waiting quiet and pale
Naked young immensely marvellous

Like Baal loved it when he came to us

That same sky remained
With him in joy and care
Even when Baal slept peaceful and unaware
At night a lilac sky a drunken Baal

Turning pious as the sky grows pale

So through hospital cathedral whiskey bar
Baal kept moving onwards and just let things go
When Baal's tired boys Baal cannot fall far
He will have his sky down there below

When the sinners congregate in shame together

Baal lay naked revelling in their distress

Only sky a sky that will go on forever

Formed a blanket for his nakedness

And that lusty girl the world
Who'll laughing yield

To the men who'll stand
The pressure of her thighs

Sometimes gave him love-bites
Such as can't be healed

Baal survived it he just used his eyes

And when Baal saw
Lots of corpses scattered round

He felt twice the thrill
Despite the lack of room

"Space enough" said Baal
"then I'll thicken the
Ground
Space enough within this woman's womb"

Any vice for Baal
Has got it's useful side
It's the man who practices it
He can't abide
Vices have their point
Once you see it as such
Stick to two for one will be too much

Slackness softness are the sort of
Things to shun
Nothing could be harder
Than the quest for fun
Lots of strength is needed
And experience too
Swollen bellies can embarrass you

Under gloomy stars
And this poor veil of tears

Baal will graze a pasture
Till it disappears

Once it's been digested to the forest's teeth

Baal trod singing
For a well earned sleep

Baal can spot the vultures
In the stormy sky

As they wait up
There to see if Baal will die

Sometimes Baal pretends he's dead
But vultures swoop

Baal in silence dines on vulture-soup

When the dark womb
Drags him down to it's prize

What's the world still mean to Baal
He's overfed

So much sky is lurking
Still behind his eyes

He'll just have enough sky
When he's dead

Once the Earth's dark womb
Engulfed the rotting Baal
Even then the sky was up there
Quiet and pale

Naked young immensely marvellous

Like Baal loved it when he came with us