Текст песни Coloured (Chris Knox) с переводом

The sun is high

It floods the land with its extraction of the warming dark

That clings to us from sleeping

The colours flee the grasp of morning

As it turns into the chilling heat of midday

Harsh and beating

The stones beneath our feet scream slowly

The grass is stepped upon

Its gleaming life is spent

The shock of innocence

Diluted in the years that pass for wisdom

In these lives that mock their makers

The grasp of essences

That waft beyond our knowledge

Or our skill outside our dreams of purloined acres

The dirt beneath our nails is gnawing at our nerve-ends

The wax inside our ears moves on

The phlegm behind our throats

Is thrusting out its tendrils to the light

The ignorance of this has gone

The skin falls slackly

From the flesh that once was muscled now has atrophied

And hangs in folds of anger

The eyes are glazed, the legs are stiff, the mouth is dry

The teeth are clenched to hide

The colours of the chancre

The stones beneath our feet outlive us in their laughter

The grass springs up as if anew

This sun is high

It floods the land that lives without our sweet consent

The colours iridesce in you

The sun is high

It beats at lives that have not started

As we lie in earth of saturated hue

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