《Gold》歌词

[00:00:00] Gold - Jeffrey Lewis/Jack Lewis/Anders Griffen

[00:00:00] When I got to the golden city

[00:00:04] Most of the gold was gone

[00:00:07] By that time I had some questions

[00:00:10] So I flagged down a race-car bum

[00:00:14] He said "Sonny I don't know where it's going

[00:00:17] But I can show you where it all comes from"

[00:00:20] And he mopped his red forehead and he pointed

[00:00:23] Straight into the setting sun

[00:00:27] And people let me tell you

[00:00:30] That what I then did saw

[00:00:34] It sent such a shock to my system

[00:00:37] That I almost fell down dead on the floor

[00:00:40] 'Cause the sun had a big chunk missing

[00:00:44] About 24 carats wide

[00:00:47] And I stared into that hole in the golden sun

[00:00:51] And you wanna know what I saw inside

[00:00:54] I saw a giant toothpick factory

[00:00:57] And it made my very soul feel sick

[00:01:01] 'Cause when I say I saw a toothpick factory

[00:01:04] I mean I saw a factory made out of toothpicks

[00:01:08] And that factory was a-hoppin' and jumpin'

[00:01:11] And a-roaring and letting off steam

[00:01:14] And you know that that ain't all now

[00:01:18] Let me tell you what else I seen

[00:01:21] Behind the factory was a giant mutant monster

[00:01:25] With sixty-seven seperate tails

[00:01:28] And each one was wiggling and waving

[00:01:31] And each one as long as twenty-three whales

[00:01:34] And at the tip of each towering tendril

[00:01:38] Were a dozen tiny pencils of lead

[00:01:42] And each word they wrote was in a different language

[00:01:45] And when you put them all together they said

[00:01:48] "You who have arms to wrestle

[00:01:52] And you who have wars to fight

[00:01:55] And you who have chips on your shoulders

[00:01:58] Must now line up and stand to my right

[00:02:02] But you who are meek and lawful

[00:02:05] And you who are soft and kind

[00:02:09] If you don't want to see something awful

[00:02:12] Run and get yourself a rock to hide behind

[00:02:15] 'Cause these colours are just a signal

[00:02:19] And these colours are just about to fade"

[00:02:22] And when I read those words I shivered

[00:02:25] And I saw exactly what the factory made

[00:02:29] Out of a little doorway

[00:02:32] At the end of a conveyor belt

[00:02:36] In the centre of a ring of fire

[00:02:39] Half the size of a postage stamp

[00:02:42] Were a million household items

[00:02:45] Packed into a metal Dukes Of Hazzard lunchbox

[00:02:49] And they were all shut and sealed and fastened

[00:02:52] With a gold combination lock

[00:02:56] And just about every minute

[00:02:59] Another one came right out of the hole

[00:03:03] And crashed to the earth beneath it

[00:03:06] And landed in a lump of coal

[00:03:09] And every poor coal miner

[00:03:13] Who happened on a golden stone

[00:03:16] Was made both richer and wiser

[00:03:19] And had to murder someone to get it home

[00:03:23] And then I had to close my eyelids

[00:03:26] And I had to turn my face away

[00:03:29] The race-car man was crying

[00:03:33] And I heard him angrily say

[00:03:37] "I suppose you want a glass of water

[00:03:40] I suppose you wanna eat something warm"

[00:03:43] Ans I said "Yes but not with you sir"

[00:03:47] And I ran off to be alone

[00:03:50] And I sat under a bridge and I wondered

[00:03:54] What exactly all of these things were

[00:03:57] And I found I could not even remember

[00:04:00] What I thought they were before

[00:04:04] I just want something even

[00:04:07] Something that won't cause no fuss

[00:04:11] The sun can go about its business

[00:04:14] And leave the rest to us

[00:04:18] And we'll call it even

[00:04:21] And we'll call it gold