Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Slouching Towards Bethlehem, artist - Joni Mitchell. Album song The Complete Geffen Recordings, in the genre Date of issue: 22.09.2003
Record label: Geffen
Song language: English
Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
| Turning and turning |
| Within the widening gyre |
| The falcon cannot hear the falconer |
| Things fall apart |
| The centre cannot hold |
| And a blood dimmed tide |
| Is loosed upon the world |
| Nothing is sacred |
| The ceremony sinks |
| Innocence is drowned |
| In anarchy |
| The best lack conviction |
| Given some time to think |
| And the worst are full of passion |
| Without mercy |
| Surely some revelation is at hand |
| Surely it’s the second coming |
| And the wrath has finally taken form |
| For what is this rough beast |
| Its hour come at last |
| Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born |
| Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born |
| Hoping and hoping |
| As if with my weak faith |
| The spirit of this world |
| Would heal and rise |
| Vast are the shadows |
| That straddle and strafe |
| And struggle in the darkness |
| Troubling my eyes |
| Shaped like a lion |
| It has the head of a man |
| With a gaze as black |
| And pitiless as the sun |
| As it’s moving its slow thigs |
| Across the desert sands |
| Through dark indignant |
| Reeling falcons |
| Surely some revelation is at hand |
| Surely it’s the second coming |
| And the wrath has finally taken form |
| For what is this rough beast |
| Its hour come at last |
| Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born |
| Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born |
| (Head of a man, shape of a lion) |
| Raging and raging |
| It rises from the deep |
| Opening its eyes |
| After twenty centuries |
| Vexed to a nightmare |
| Out of a stony sleep |
| By a rocking cradle |
| By the Sea of Galilee |
| Surely some revelation is at hand |
| Surely it’s the second coming |
| And the wrath has finally taken form |
| For what is this rough beast |
| Its hour come at last |
| Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born |
| Slouching towards Bethlehem to be born |
| (Head of a man, shape of a lion) |