Goodbye To A River Lyrics
(Don Henley/Stan Lynch/Jai Winding/Frank Simes)
The rains have come early, they say
We’re all gonna wash away
Well, that’s all right with me
If heaven’s torrent can wash clean
The arrogance that lies unseen
In the damage done since we have gone
Where we ought not to be
We’re all gonna wash away
Well, that’s all right with me
If heaven’s torrent can wash clean
The arrogance that lies unseen
In the damage done since we have gone
Where we ought not to be
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long
Goodbye to a river
So long
Lakes and levers, dams and locks
They put that river in a box
It was running wild
And men must have control
We live our lives in starts and fits
We lose our wonder bit by bit
We condescend and in the end
We lose our very souls
They put that river in a box
It was running wild
And men must have control
We live our lives in starts and fits
We lose our wonder bit by bit
We condescend and in the end
We lose our very souls
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long
Goodbye to a river
So long
The dirty water washes down
Poisoning the common ground
Taking sins of farm and town
And bearing them away
The captains of industry
And their tools on the hill
They’re killing everything divine
What will I tell this child of mine
Poisoning the common ground
Taking sins of farm and town
And bearing them away
The captains of industry
And their tools on the hill
They’re killing everything divine
What will I tell this child of mine
(Solo)
I make a church out of words
As the years dull my senses
And I try to hold on to the world that I knew
I struggle to cross generational fences
And the beauty that still remains—
I can touch it through you
I make a church out of words
As the years dull my senses
And I try to hold on to the world that I knew
I struggle to cross generational fences
And the beauty that still remains—
I can touch it through you
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long
Goodbye to a river
So long
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long
Goodbye to a river
So long
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
So long
Goodbye to a river
So long
Goodbye to a river
Goodbye to a river
Roll on
Goodbye to a river
Roll on
Don Henley是Eagles的灵魂人物，歌坛大哥（音乐人工会主席，曾经代表歌手和唱片公司斗争），像他这种级别的人物，已经无需弄些绯闻包装自己、骗取收视率点播率，他可以在自己的音乐中表达完全真实的想法，好像只有斯皮尔伯格才能拍《慕尼黑》那样的电影。
这首《大河挽歌》听来实在令人伤心，也许因为矛头指向现代科技和工业社会，比较符合我的脾气吧。令我伤心的大概更是三峡工程的情形符合歌中所言，人们的机械捆绑了大河，工业杀死了自然界的神圣，我们自己的灵魂也随之堕落。上帝给我们管理这个世界的使命，我们管好了么？还是时常想念着巴别塔？其实相比流淌千百年的大河，我们渺小得很。
“环保主义”？听起来似乎只是一群喜欢穿绿色衣服的人的口号，只是一群闲得无聊的人的游戏。
我们缺乏敬畏，不再敬畏神，不再敬畏自然，不再敬畏其他生命，不再敬畏生命本身……