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Well the smart money’s on Harlow and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you’re east of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancee’s in the mirror
And the band is going home, it’s raining hammers, it’s raining nails
And it’s true there’s nothing left for him down here
[CHORUS]
And it’s time time time, and it’s time time time
And it’s time time time that you love
And it’s time time time #
And they all pretend they’re orphans and their memory’s like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget
That history puts a saint in every dream
Well she said she’d stick around until the bandages came off
But these mama’s boys just don’t know when to quit
And Mathilda asks the sailors ”Are those dreams or are those prayers?”
So close your eyes, son, and this won’t hurt a bit
Oh~[CHORUS]
Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off the cars and splash into the street
And when they’re on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off ’til I come back again
Oh~[CHORUS]x2
這首歌旋律很好聽，文字間流露出填寫的人想像力很豐富。文字很美，很令人感動。這首歌分三小段，分別寫三個小故事。
第一個故事寫拿破崙在滑鐵爐一役慘敗後，風光不再，軍隊們返回法國途中形容為”It’s raining hammers, it’s raining nails”。
第二個故事是寫一個叫Mathilda的母親因不捨兒子去當兵，就問了船上的水手一句”Are those dreams or are those prayers?”，顯得母親十分之不捨。
第三個故事是寫一名伊斯蘭女子因為親眼目睹愛人遇上車禍死亡，她正想取出剃刀自殺時突然” a thousand pigeons fall around her feet”。再寫該女子對着愛人put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips 她站在窗外，身上充滿着雨水……
三個故事都是寫世間的無常事，而我們每一個人都有機會去面對，這是世間必然發生的……
……It’s time, time, time……
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