Ballad Of The Absent Mare – Leonard Cohen
Nghệ sĩ: Leonard Cohen
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Say a prayer for the cowboy, his mare's run away
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And he'll walk till he finds her, his darling, his stray
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But the river's in flood and the roads are awash
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And the bridges break up in the panic of loss
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And there's nothing to follow, there's nowhere to go
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She's gone like the summer, gone like the snow
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And the crickets are breaking his heart with their song
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As the day caves in and the night is all wrong
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Did he dream, was it she who went galloping past
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And bent down the fern and broke open the grass
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And printed the mud with the iron and the gold
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That he nailed to her feet when he was the lord
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And although she goes grazing a minute away
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He tracks her all night and he tracks her all day
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Oh blind to her presence except to compare
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His injury here with her punishment there
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Then at home on his branch in the highest tree
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A songbird sings out so suddenly
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Oh the sun is warm and the soft winds ride
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On the willow trees by the riverside
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Oh the world is sweet and the world is wide
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And she's there where the light and the darkness divide
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And the steam's coming off her, she's huge and she's shy
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And she steps on the moon when she paws at the sky
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And she comes to his hand but she's not really tame
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She longs to be lost and he longs for the same
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And she'll bolt and she'll plunge through the first open pass
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To roll and to feed in the sweet mountain grass
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Or she'll make a break for the high plateau
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Where there's nothing above and there's nothing below
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And it's time for their burden, it's time for the whip
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Will she walk through the flame, can he shoot from the hip
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So he binds himself to the galloping mare
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And she binds herself to the rider there
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And there is no space but there's left and right
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And there is no time but there's day and night
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And he leans on her neck and he whispers low
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Wither thou goest, I will go
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And they turn as one and they head for the plain
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No need for the whip, no need for the rein
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Now the clasp of this union who fastens it tight
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Who snaps it asunder the very next night
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Some say the rider, some say the mare
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Or that love's like the smoke, beyond all repair
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But my darling says, Leonard, just let it go by
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That old silhouette on the great Western sky
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So I pick out a tune and they move right along
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And they're gone like the smoke and they're gone like this song