[ti:La Colombe-The Dove] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Joan] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]La Colombe-The Dove - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:10.48]Why all these bugles cry [00:12.46] [00:13.34]These squads of young men drill [00:15.91] [00:16.77]To kill and to be killed [00:19.15] [00:20.39]Stood waiting by the train [00:22.60] [00:25.21]Why the orders loud and hoarse [00:28.84]Why the engine's groaning cough [00:31.45] [00:32.42]As it strains to drag us all [00:34.78] [00:36.30]Into the holocaust [00:38.86] [00:41.10]Why crowds who sing and cry [00:43.93] [00:44.69]And shout and fling us flowers [00:47.40] [00:48.23]And trade their rights for ours [00:50.66] [00:51.57]To murder and to die [00:54.48] [00:57.96]The dove has torn her wing [01:00.94] [01:02.44]So no more songs of love [01:06.10] [01:09.16]We are not here to sing [01:13.43] [01:14.54]We're here to kill the dove [01:19.87] [01:25.89]Why must this moment come [01:28.05] [01:29.32]When childhood has to die [01:31.79] [01:32.68]When hope shrinks to a sigh [01:35.12] [01:36.08]And speech into a drum [01:37.97] [01:41.42]Why are they pale and still [01:43.97] [01:44.65]Young boys trained over night [01:47.03] [01:48.23]Concripts payed to kill [01:50.59] [01:51.51]And dressed in gray to fight [01:53.88] [01:56.35]These rainclouds massing tight [01:58.92] [01:59.80]This train load battle bound [02:02.51] [02:03.21]This moving burial ground [02:05.85] [02:06.61]Goes thundering to the night [02:09.74] [02:12.95]The dove has torn her wing [02:16.55] [02:17.37]So no more songs of love [02:22.05] [02:24.16]We are not here to sing [02:28.65] [02:29.60]We're here to kill the dove [02:33.09] [02:40.72]Why statues towering grave [02:43.00] [02:44.13]Above the last defeat [02:46.65] [02:47.34]Old words and lies repeat [02:51.14]Across a new made grave [02:53.85] [02:55.83]And why the same still birds [02:58.78] [02:59.59]That victory always brought [03:01.87] [03:02.98]These hours of glory bought [03:05.60] [03:06.32]By men with mounds of earth [03:09.07] [03:11.49]Dead ash without a spark [03:13.99] [03:15.08]Where cities used to be [03:17.45] [03:18.44]Where guns probe every spark [03:21.27] [03:21.83]And crush it into dust [03:23.70] [03:27.68]The dove has torn her wing [03:31.21] [03:32.02]So no more songs of love [03:36.05] [03:39.79]We are not here to sing [03:43.51] [03:44.47]We're here to kill the dove [03:48.40] [03:55.52]And while your face undone [03:58.90]With jagged lines of tears [04:01.76] [04:02.49]That gave in those first years [04:05.38] [04:05.94]All the peace I'd ever want [04:08.20] [04:11.17]Your body in the gloom [04:13.36] [04:14.52]The platform fading back [04:17.80]Your shadow on the track [04:20.17] [04:21.58]A flower upon a tomb [04:23.60] [04:26.60]And why these days ahead [04:30.37]When I must let you cry [04:32.44] [04:33.56]And live prepared to die [04:36.14] [04:36.70]And a part of the dear [04:41.04] [04:43.07]The dove has torn her wing [04:46.15] [04:47.28]So no more songs of love [04:50.76] [04:54.70]We are not here to sing [04:58.69] [04:59.58]We're here to kill the dove