《All These Strangers》歌词

[00:00:00] All These Strangers - Elvis Costello

[00:00:00] Written by：Elvis Costello/T.-Bone Burnett

[00:00:01] Mistreat me darling and I might just disappear

[00:00:08] Upon freighter running dark out of Algiers

[00:00:14] Put tiny grains in children's tears

[00:00:21] While taking 25% of all the flashbulbs and mementoes

[00:00:29] From the mechanized divisions rolling over your frontiers

[00:00:35] I saw my baby talking to a man today

[00:00:43] Speaking softly in a confidential way

[00:00:49] I saw a shadow pull his glove off

[00:00:57] As a bluebird flew over

[00:01:00] Life's is no pleasure

[00:01:02] When you doubt the one you love

[00:01:08] Who are all these strangers

[00:01:14] I never will go back again

[00:01:21] Go back into the past

[00:01:24] The flood is rising fast

[00:01:30] You can break your window and look down

[00:01:37] Into a muddy glass

[00:01:40] For it's mirror or lens to burn

[00:01:47] There was a deal done in Benghazi and Belgrade

[00:01:55] Upon a scimitar or other crooked blade

[00:02:02] Ransacks and loots vacated suits

[00:02:10] And pistol points but never shoots

[00:02:14] Army sitting in a locomotive yard without their boots

[00:02:24] Upstairs your man is painting the rain out in the street

[00:02:31] Imagines woman that he's destined still to meet

[00:02:39] He's trying sidetrack one to count on

[00:02:46] Caught somewhere between countess or a courtesan

[00:02:52] And it's only love to feign and then it's gone

[00:02:57] Who are all these strangers

[00:03:06] He's a privateer as dusk gets near

[00:03:11] A brigand after dark his victim lined with chalk

[00:03:20] A corsair filled with horsehair to the core

[00:03:27] Dashed on your eyes of adamantine

[00:03:31] You despised his stripling whine

[00:03:38] That little smudger and the mouthpiece that he's with

[00:03:46] Using his clause just like a practised fingersmith

[00:03:53] I dreamed I took his digit prints

[00:04:01] And then I sewed them on a villain's hands

[00:04:05] Watched him ransom and demand

[00:04:09] Until called the flatfoots in

[00:04:16] I never will go back again

[00:04:22] Go back into the past

[00:04:26] The flood is rising fast

[00:04:32] You can break your window and look down

[00:04:38] Into a muddy glass

[00:04:42] For it's a mirror or lens to burn

[00:04:49] Who are all these strangers

[00:04:59] All these strangers

[00:05:07] Sat down on a narrow bed

[00:05:11] Thought about the things she said

[00:05:14] All these strangers

[00:05:22] How I wished the night would never end

[00:05:27] Tried to stop the days ahead

[00:05:29] I'd carve her name down in the wood

[00:05:34] Some small remembrance if I could