Al Stewart / Palace Of Versailles 외

Al Stewart / Palace Of Versailles

1978년 Al Stesart의 앨범 Time Passages 수록곡

 

 

1945년 스코트랜드 글래스고에서 태어난 영국의 싱거 송라이터

밥딜런과 도노반의 영향을 받았으며 노스트라다무스와 나폴레옹등 서사시적 내용의 가사를 다룸

들국화의 사랑한 후에 란 제목으로 번안되어 우리나라에서 많은 사랑을 받은 곡이지만 분위기는 사뭇 다르다.

The wands of smoke are rising
From the walls of the Bastille
And through the streets of Paris
Runs a sense of the unreal

The Kings have all departed
There servants are nowhere
We burned out their mansions
In the name of Robespierre

And still we wait
To see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Inside the midnight councils
The lamps are burning low
On you sit and talk all through the night
But there's just no place to go

And Bonaparte is coming
With his army from the south
Marat your days are numbered
And we live hand to mouth

While we wait
To see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

The ghost of revolution
Still prowls the Paris streets
Down all the restless centuries
It wonders incomplete

It speaks inside the cheap red wine
Of cafe summer nights
Its red and amber voices
Call the cars at traffic lights

Why do you wait
To see the day begin
Your time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

 

Year of the Cat (1976, #8)

 

Time Passages (1978, #7)