Lovers & Friends

歌詞

Lovers and Friends -- Battlefield Band Ah, battles and wars Leave deep wounds and scars And deep wounds are long in the mending Where reflecting upon All that is gone Your life passes on til it's ending. But the pleasure and pain In our memories remain And by memories, our times will be measured And the times that we spend With lovers and friends Are times we remember with pleasure. So fill up your glass To the future and past In harmony, be determined: There's more friendship poured out In a bottle of stout Than you'll find in statute or sermon. I've heard all the old songs Of the rights and the wrongs The prophets of doom and destruction Speak more of messiahs, Like all pariahs Up to their necks in corruption. From the holy and wise, Denial and lies, Where innocent youth is foresaken I have watched the days end, With lovers and friends, Sorry to see the dawn breaking. There are those who are certain That drinking and courtin' Is a sure way to hell and damnation. Well if that is to be, It would seem clear to me, Their God has no sense of occasion. To fulfill his plan, Both woman and man, Bring forth each new generation. And a bottle of stout And a bit of a bout, Surely appease procreation. Variation: So fill up your glass, Throw your arms round your lass In harmony be determined. There's more friendship poured out, In a bottle of stout Then you'll find in statute or sermon. To the precious and pious And them that shall chide us To the fear that the call has been given. To parade and deride us, Separate and divide us All in their versions of heaven. But mountains and rivers Will by far outlive us When our bones into dust they are withered, There will be lovers and friends, And we'll still comprehend The reason we're in this together.