《The Colonial Wing》歌词

[00:00:00] The Colonial Wing (LP版) - 10000 Maniacs

[00:00:01] Written by：Robert Buck

[00:00:21] Here is the storehouse of her majesty

[00:00:31] Well guarded by sentry

[00:00:35] But looks are free

[00:00:52] Call this the rayless and benighted age

[00:01:03] Witches by tallow candles

[00:01:07] Shifted shifted their shapes

[00:01:12] Here is the pestle and mortar

[00:01:15] Ground the poison seed

[00:01:17] A lute a suit for jousting

[00:01:19] And the poems of the balladeers

[00:01:22] When all the latin books were copied me off

[00:01:26] In golden script

[00:01:27] Where hoarded away in

[00:01:32] A monastery crypt

[00:01:48] Superstition

[00:01:52] Superstition beyond belief

[00:02:11] Over mountains over dunes and over seas

[00:02:21] Crude map and compass lead the caravan

[00:02:27] And land the fleets

[00:02:34] Here is the loot and plunder

[00:02:37] They bore home

[00:02:39] Ivory tusk inlaid with precious stone

[00:02:44] Raw silk and spices by the barrel load

[00:02:49] A soft skin drum with mallets

[00:02:53] Of human bone

[00:03:07] A world wide rampage

[00:03:11] Rampage of greed

[00:03:22] So here the tour concludes

[00:03:27] The colonial wing

[00:03:32] The rooms of the most refined

[00:03:37] Museum property

[00:03:42] An early pair of spectacles

[00:03:45] A claw footed divan

[00:03:48] Ornate clocks with birds that strut

[00:03:52] On the half hours and quarter hours

[00:03:56] Hear them chime