《Viceroy’s Row》歌词

[00:00:04] VICEROY'S Row - Elvis Costello & The Roots

[00:00:12] Now there's a crank in every crowd

[00:00:15] Sprinkling gunpowder

[00:00:18] Seems that everything is about to blow

[00:00:24] They lit the burning paper

[00:00:26] With a waxen taper

[00:00:29] Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row

[00:00:36] And they're gathering flowers

[00:00:38] In the crack of hours

[00:00:41] Where all of the nightmares go

[00:00:45] Watching the pipeline as it overflowed

[00:00:51] Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row

[00:01:00] He made a fortune out of barbed wire

[00:01:04] In the last days of the Empire

[00:01:06] Built a cast-iron curtain

[00:01:08] Just to keep control

[00:01:12] He was a tycoon then a cheapskate

[00:01:14] Went out looking for a keepsake

[00:01:17] To tuck into his suitcase on Viceroy's Row

[00:01:24] And they're gathering flowers

[00:01:26] In the crack of hours

[00:01:29] Where all of the nightmares go

[00:01:33] Watching the pipeline as it overflowed

[00:01:39] Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row

[00:01:49] He had a satchel full of cash

[00:01:52] And dishes full of ashes

[00:01:55] He went from boom to bust

[00:01:57] In the blinking of a lash

[00:02:00] Heard the rat-a-tat of the late patrol

[00:02:05] Shooting out the lights up on Viceroy's Row

[00:02:12] And they're gathering flowers

[00:02:14] In the crack of hours

[00:02:17] Where all of the nightmares go

[00:02:21] They're coming for him slowly

[00:02:24] Now the war is over

[00:02:27] Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row

[00:02:37] The woman in a blindfold

[00:02:40] She doesn't want her hand held

[00:02:43] Walking through a minefield

[00:02:46] Saying "How does this feel "

[00:02:48] Stepping on the quicksand

[00:02:51] Going down slow

[00:02:53] Hiding up here on Viceroy's Row

[00:02:59] Nothing satisfies

[00:03:01] The ruins of his blue eyes

[00:03:04] Like blood stains on a diamond mine

[00:03:10] And deep within you felt

[00:03:12] Not one measure of his guilt

[00:03:15] Staring in the dark up on Viceroy's Row

[00:03:21] Yet her penitent lover

[00:03:24] Took a ribbon of rubber

[00:03:26] Tied her to the bed made of silken thread

[00:03:31] But without an ounce of mercy

[00:03:33] They denounced him with a curse

[00:03:36] Hammering on the door upon Viceroy's Row

[00:03:47] Now his little concubine in her cemetery drag

[00:03:52] Her face all smeared with charcoal

[00:03:55] Is leaving all her cares so

[00:03:58] Take 500 acres and see what you can sow

[00:04:03] We came to overthrow those on Viceroy's Row

[00:04:10] They're gathering flowers

[00:04:12] In the crack of hours

[00:04:15] Where all of the nightmares go

[00:04:19] Watching the pipeline as it overflowed

[00:04:25] Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row