《Scorched Earth》是Van Der Graaf Generator演唱的歌曲，由Leonard Duncan作詞作曲，收錄於《Godbluff》專輯中。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Scorched Earth
- 所屬專輯：Godbluff
- 歌曲原唱：Van Der Graaf Generator
- 填詞：Leonard Duncan
歌曲歌詞
Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast
he looks into the future and
remembers what it past
wonders what he's doing on this battlefield
shrugs to his shadow
impatient too proud yet to kneel
In his wake he leaves
scorched earth and work in vain
smoke drifts up behind him he is free again
free to run before the onslaught of a deadly foe
leaving nothing fit for pillage
hardly leaving home
It's far too late to turn unless it's to stone
Charging madly forward tracks across the snow
wind screams madness to him ever on he goes
leaving spoor to mark
his passage trace his weary climb
Cross the moor and make the headland
stumbling wayward blind
In the end his footprints extend as one single line
This latest exponent of heresy is
goaded into an attack
persuaded to charge at his enemy
Too late he knows it is too late
know to turn back
too soon by far to falter
The past sits uneasily at his rear
he's walking right into the trap
surrounded but striving through will and fear
Ahead of him he knows there
waits an ambuscade
but the dice slips through his fingers
and he's living from day to day
carrying his world around upon his back
leaving nothing behind but the
tell tale of his track
He will not be hostage he will not be slave
no snare of past can trap him
though the future may
Still he runs and burns behind
him in advanced retreat
still his life remains unfettered he denies defeat
It's far too late to turn unless it's to stone
Leave the past to burn at least
that's been his own
Scorched earth that's all
that's left when he's done
holding nothing but beholden to no one
claiming nothing out of
no false pride he survived
Snow tracks are all that's left to be seen
of a man who entered the course of a dream
claiming nothing but the life he's known
this at least has been his own
