Перевод песни Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

[I. Eruption 00:00-02:43]

[II. Stones of Years 02:43-06:27]

Has the dawn ever seen your eyes?
Have the days made you so unwise?
Realize, you are.

Had you talked to the winds of time,
Then you’d know how the waters rhyme.
Taste of wine.

How can you know where you’ve been?
In time, you’ll see the sign,
And realize your sin.

Will you know how the seed is sown?
All your time has been overgrown,
Never known.

Have you walked on the stones of years?
When you speak, is it you that hears?
Are your ears full?
You can’t hear anything at all.

[III. Iconoclast 06:27-07:43]

[IV. Mass 07:43-10:55]

The preacher said a prayer,
Save every single hair on his head.
He’s dead.
The minister of hate
Had just arrived too late to be spared.
Who cared?

The weaver in the web that he made!

The pilgrim wandered in
Committing every sin that he could,
So good.
The cardinal of grief
Was set in the belief he’d be saved
From the grave

The weaver in the web that he made!

The high priest took a blade
To bless the ones that prayed.
And all obeyed.
The messenger of fear
Is slowly growing, nearer to the time.
A sign.

The weaver in the web that he made!

A bishop rings a bell,
A cloak of darkness fell across the ground,
Without a sound.
The silent choir sing,
And in their silence
Bring jaded sound,
Harmonic ground.

The weaver in the web that he made!

[V. Manticore 10:55-12:47]

[VI. Battlefield 12:47-16:39]

Clear the battlefield and let me see
All the profit from our victory.
You talk of freedom, starving children fall.
Are you deaf when you hear the season’s call?

Were you there to watch the earth be scorched?
Did you stand beside the spectral torch?
Know the leaves of sorrow turned their face
Scattered on the ashes of disgrace.

Every blade is sharp, the arrows fly
Where the victims of your armies lie,
Where the blades of grass and arrows rain
Then there’d be no sorrow, be no pain

[VII. Aquatarkus 16:39-20:37]