《The Hole in the Map》歌词

[00:00:00] The Hole in the Map - Lorraine Feather

[00:01:04] Slightly below the Equator

[00:01:06] Beneath a scalding sun

[00:01:09] Waits a counterfeit paradise

[00:01:11] And sure oblivion

[00:01:13] Or so they told our hero

[00:01:15] In 1925

[00:01:17] As he went back to the river

[00:01:19] That ate so many alive

[00:01:25] It starts as a trickle in the clouds and snow

[00:01:28] With more than an America still to go

[00:01:30] Steamrollers into the sea

[00:01:32] Wide as New York City

[00:01:34] Passable only in the worst of the heat

[00:01:36] In the winter it rises 40 feet

[00:01:38] The green hell is a heady trap

[00:01:40] So dont fall down

[00:01:44] The hole in the map

[00:01:48] Youd bet such a forest would feed you

[00:01:51] You would lose that bet

[00:01:53] You thought you learned about fortitude

[00:01:55] As a gentleman cadet

[00:01:57] The painful pranks the floggings

[00:01:59] Were bliss compared to this

[00:02:01] As you hack through the lianas

[00:02:04] Where hanging boas hiss

[00:02:10] There are bugs thatll kill you with a single bite

[00:02:12] Turn your cotton britches to threads in a night

[00:02:14] Homicidal gnats no bigger than seeds

[00:02:16] Cynanide-squirting millipedes

[00:02:18] Still you know you love it and you wont be swayed

[00:02:20] Though you never are fully unafraid

[00:02:22] Hits your heart like a thunderclap

[00:02:24] So dont fall down

[00:02:28] The hole in the map

[00:02:33] Back in the comfort of Devon

[00:02:38] You sweeten your tea and sigh

[00:02:44] Free now to sleep till eleven

[00:02:49] And watch the old world go by

[00:02:54] You smile at your civilized heaven

[00:03:00] And say that at last youll stay

[00:03:05] But close by the gates

[00:03:08] The Amazon waits

[00:03:10] To quietly drag you away

[00:03:16] Drag you away

[00:03:22] Back to the river

[00:03:25] Its passable only in the worst of the heat

[00:03:27] In the winter it rises 40 feet

[00:03:29] The green hell is a heady trap

[00:03:31] Dont fall

[00:03:50] There are bugs thatll kill you with a single bite

[00:03:54] Turn your cotton britches to threads in a night

[00:03:59] Homicidal gnats no bigger than seeds

[00:04:03] Cynanide-squirting millipedes