Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO-aSVFCDxw

Shadows and Light

ジョニ・ミッチェル

Every picture has it's shadows
And it has some source of light
Blindness, blindness and sight
The perils of benefactors
The blessings of parasites
Blindness, blindness and sight
Threatened by all things
Devil of cruelty
Drawn to all things
Devil of delight
Mythical devil of the ever-present laws
Governing blindness, blindness and sight

Suntans in reservation dining rooms
Pale miners in their lantern rays
Night, night and day
Hostage smiles on presidents
Freedom scribbled in the subway
It's like night, night and day
Threatened by all things
God of cruelty
Drawn to all things
God of delight
Mythical God of the everlasting* laws
Governing day, day and night

Critics of all expression

Judges in black and white
Saying it's wrong, saying it's right
Compelled by prescribed standards
Or some ideals we fight
For wrong, wrong and right
Threatened by all things
Man of cruelty, mark of Cain**
Drawn to all things
Man of delight, born again, born again
Man of the laws, the ever broken laws
Governing wrong, wrong and right
Governing wrong, wrong and right
Wrong and right

*EVER-PRESENT?

** 此次演唱 mark of Cain未唱出，約4分10秒

Genesis 4

King James Version

創世紀 第4章第15節

And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

15上主對他說：「決不這樣，凡殺加音/該隱 的人，一定要受七倍的罰。」上主遂給加音一個記號，以免遇見他的人擊殺他。

https://hcbible.blogspot.com/2020/08/genesis-4-chapter-4-genesis-by-robert.html