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Dress Rehearsal Rag - Leonard Cohen (莱昂纳德·科恩)
Four oclock in the afternoon
And I didn't feel like very much

I said to myself
Where are you golden boy
Where is your famous golden touch

I thought you knew where
All of the elephants lie down

I thought you were the crown prince
Of all the wheels in ivory town

Just take a look at your body now

There's nothing much to save

And a bitter voice in the mirror cries
Hey prince you need a shave

Now if you can manage to get
Your trembling fingers to behave

Why don't you try unwrapping
A stainless steel razor blade
That's right it's come to this

Yes it's come to this

And wasn't it a long way down

Wasn't it a strange way down

There's no hot water

And the cold is running thin

Well what do you expect from
The kind of places you've been living in

Don't drink from that cup
It's all caked and cracked along the rim

That's not the electric light my friend
That is your vision growing dim

Cover up your face with soap there

Now you're santa claus

And you've got a gift for anyone
Who will give you his applause

I thought you were a racing man
Ah but you couldn't take the pace

That's a funeral in the mirror
And it's stopping at your face
That's right it's come to this

Yes it's come to this

And wasn't it a long way down

Ah wasn't it a strange way down

Once there was a path

And a girl with chestnut hair

And you passed the summers
Picking all of the berries
That grew there;

There were times she was a woman

Oh there were times
She was just a child

And you held her in the shadows
Where the raspberries grow wild

And you climbed the twilight mountains

And you sang about the view

And everywhere that you wandered
Love seemed to go along with you

That's a hard one to remember
Yes it makes you clench your fist
And then the veins
Stand out like highways

All along your wrist
And yes it's come to this

It's come to this

And wasn't it a long way down

Wasn't it a strange way down

You can still find a job

Go out and talk to a friend

On the back of every magazine
There are those coupons
You can send

Why don't you join the rosicrucians

They can give you back your hope

You can find your love with diagrams
On a plain brown envelope

But you've used up all your coupons

Except the one that seems

To be written on your wrist
Along with several thousand dreams

Now santa claus comes forward
That's a razor in his mit;

And he puts on his dark glasses
And he shows you where to hit;
And then the cameras pan

The stand in stunt man

Dress rehearsal rag

It's just the dress rehearsal rag

You know this dress rehearsal rag

It's just a dress rehearsal rag