[ti:Mariano] [ar:Robert Earl Keen] [al:A Retrospective (经典回顾)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mariano - Robert Earl Keen [00:24.35]The man outside who works for me his name is Mariano [00:28.44] [00:29.53]He cuts and trims the grass for me he makes the flowers bloom [00:34.03] [00:35.13]He says that he comes from a place not far from Guantanamo [00:39.40] [00:40.32]It's two days on a bus from here a lifetime from this room [00:44.78] [00:47.13]I fix his meals and talk to him in my own broken Spanish [00:51.66] [00:52.32]He points at things and tells me names of things I can't recall [00:56.99] [00:57.78]But sometimes I just can't but help but wonder who this man is [01:02.54] [01:03.26]And yet when he's gone will he remember me at all [01:07.58] [01:09.98]I watch him close he works just like a piston in an engine [01:14.22] [01:15.24]He only stops to take a drink and smoke a cigarette [01:19.31] [01:20.61]And when the day is ended I look out side my window [01:25.16] [01:26.10]There on the horizon Mariano's silhouette [01:30.27] [01:42.15]He sits upon a stone in a south easterly direction [01:46.66] [01:47.41]I know my charts I know that he is thinking of his home [01:52.08] [01:52.91]I've never been the sort to say I'm into intuition [01:56.80] [01:58.03]But I swear I've seen the faces of the one's he calls his own [02:02.77] [02:04.80]Their skin is brown as potter's clay their eyes void of expression [02:09.18] [02:10.16]Their hair is black as widow's dreams their dreams are all but gone [02:14.78] [02:15.54]Their ancient exhibitions of a sacrificial virgin [02:19.89] [02:21.18]And in the sun he's crying from a baby being born [02:25.51] [02:27.51]They wrap around a dying flame and pray for his protection [02:31.80] [02:32.77]Their prayers are often answered by his letters in the mail [02:37.43] [02:38.16]He sends them colored figures he cuts from strips of paper [02:42.62] [02:43.52]And all his weekly wages saving nothing for himself [02:47.80] [03:02.19]It's been a while since I've seen the face of Mariano [03:06.34] [03:07.43]The border guards they came one day and took him far away [03:11.70] [03:12.74]I hope that he is safe down there at home in Guantanamo [03:17.05] [03:17.88]I worry though I hear there's revolution everyday