《The River In Reverse》歌词

[00:00:00] The River In Reverse - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)

[00:00:23] How long does a promise last

[00:00:26] How long can a lie be told

[00:00:30] What would I take in exchange for my soul

[00:00:34] Would I notice when it was sold

[00:00:38] Wake me up

[00:00:40] Wake me up

[00:00:41] Wake me up with a slap or a kiss

[00:00:45] There must be something better than this

[00:00:49] 'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse

[00:00:54] What do we have to do to send the river in reverse

[00:01:06] Every man

[00:01:07] A crawling king snake

[00:01:09] Every girl

[00:01:11] A half a heartbreak

[00:01:13] Every woman sold into shame

[00:01:17] To any son without a name

[00:01:21] Are your arms too weak to lift

[00:01:24] Another shovel on the graveyard shift

[00:01:28] Here comes the flood if you catch my drift

[00:01:32] Where the things that they promised are not a gift

[00:01:36] Man falls through the mirror of a lake

[00:01:40] They fish him out quick and they call him a fake

[00:01:43] Give him all the temptations he can take

[00:01:47] Tie him up high till his bones break

[00:01:52] Wake me up

[00:01:55] Wake me up

[00:01:56] Wake me up with a slap or a kiss

[00:01:59] There must be something better than this

[00:02:03] 'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse

[00:02:08] What do we have to do to send the river in reverse

[00:02:20] I thought I heard somebody laugh

[00:02:25] Look out your window

[00:02:28] They're chasing shadows in the dark

[00:02:32] They're counting widows

[00:02:35] I felt a sliver of glass

[00:02:39] Saw a cross in splinters

[00:02:43] Felt the truce of spring

[00:02:47] Dig me out of the trench of winter

[00:02:50] So count your blessings when they ask permission

[00:02:54] To govern with money and superstition

[00:02:58] They tell you it's all for your own protection

[00:03:01] Till you fear your own reflection

[00:03:05] But the times are passing from illumination

[00:03:09] Like bodies falling from a constellation

[00:03:13] An uncivil war divides the nation

[00:03:17] So erase the tape

[00:03:21] On that final ape

[00:03:25] Running down creation

[00:03:29] Running down creation

[00:03:33] Wake me up

[00:03:36] Wake me up

[00:03:36] Wake me up with a slap or a kiss

[00:03:40] There must be something better than this

[00:03:48] Wake me up

[00:03:52] Wake me up with a slap or a kiss

[00:03:55] There must be something better than this