《Last Great American Whale(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:00] Last Great American Whale - Lou Reed

[00:00:01] They say he didn't have an enemy

[00:00:03] His was a greatness to behold

[00:00:08] He was the last surviving progeny

[00:00:11] The last one on this side of the world

[00:00:17] He measured a half mile from tip to tail

[00:00:19] Silver and black with powerful fins

[00:00:26] They say he could split a mountain in two

[00:00:28] That's how we got the Grand Canyon

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[00:00:50] Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes

[00:00:52] Some say they saw him off of Florida

[00:00:57] My mother said she saw him in Chinatown

[00:01:01] But you can't always trust your mother

[00:01:06] Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day

[00:01:09] The lighthouse glows ghostly there at night

[00:01:14] The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son

[00:01:18] And he'd been on death row since 1958

[00:01:22] The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig

[00:01:25] Spit on Indians and lots worse

[00:01:31] The old chief buried a hatchet in his head

[00:01:34] Life compared to death for him seemed worse

[00:01:39] The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing

[00:01:43] And tried to conjure up a storm or rain

[00:01:47] The harbor parted the great whale sprang full up

[00:01:52] And caused a hugh tidal wave

[00:01:55] The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief

[00:01:59] The tribe let out a roar

[00:02:03] The whites were drowned the browns and reds set free

[00:02:07] But sadly one thing more

[00:02:11] Some local yokel member of the NRA

[00:02:16] Kept a bazooka in his living room

[00:02:19] And thinking he had the chief in his sight

[00:02:23] Blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon

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[00:02:44] Well Americans don't care for much of anything

[00:02:47] Land and water the least

[00:02:53] And animal life is low on the totem pole

[00:02:56] With human life not worth more than infected yeast

[00:03:01] Americans don't care too much for beauty

[00:03:04] They'll shit in a river dump battery acid in a stream

[00:03:08] They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach

[00:03:12] And complain if they can't swim

[00:03:17] They say things are done for the majority

[00:03:20] Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear

[00:03:25] It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me

[00:03:28] "Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over they're done"