The hourglass song(沙漏之歌)

作詞 / 作曲：Robby Benson


I have a blue balloon, a happy tune
我有一個藍色汽球、一首愉快的歌

Long enough to last me all thru the afternoon
夠我度過整個下午

I have the New York Times, fourteen dimes
我有一份紐約時報、一元四角

And explanation of the most profound nursery rhyme
還有許多深奧的兒歌註解

*Before the rivers run dry
在河水乾涸以前

Before the last sad good-bye
在最後一個悲傷的道別以前

Let's be kind to one another, we can try
讓我們溫柔地對待彼此，我們試試看吧！

So don't just throw your love about
因此，別輕易虛擲你的愛

It's not too late to find out
發現真相還不遲

Before the sand has all run out of the hourglass
在沙漏的沙子完全漏光以前

The carnival is here, the clowns appear
慶典開始了，小丑來了

Plastic painted people hold each other near
化裝的人們彼此擁抱

Hope are always high the echo off the sky
希望總是颺起，在空中迴盪

When it's over
當一切結束

There's just the lonely sound of good-bye
只剩孤寂的道別聲

(＊重複副歌)

Too late to hide it now
如今已來不及掩藏

It's all around us now
它已在你我四周瀰漫

Oh, how I want you girl to lie beside me now
噢！女孩，我多麼希望妳此刻能與我相伴

While there is time and all my poems still rhyme
當我們還有時間，當我的詩仍有音韻

Let me love you now
讓我此刻好好愛妳

We can drink the good good wine
讓我們共飲那醇酒佳釀

(＊重複副歌)