《Dust》歌词

[00:00:00] Dust - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)

[00:00:12] If only dust could talk

[00:00:14] What would we hear it say

[00:00:16] Before it's brushed aside

[00:00:18] Just as it's swept away

[00:00:19] It's just the evidence

[00:00:21] It's of no consequence

[00:00:23] It's only flesh and bone

[00:00:25] Why don't you leave it alone

[00:00:27] If only dust could talk

[00:00:28] Caught in a falling beam

[00:00:30] If only dust could cry

[00:00:32] If only dust could scream

[00:00:36] For it's the single witness that might testify

[00:00:42] Could I spit out the truth

[00:00:43] Or would you rather just swallow a lie

[00:00:55] But dust is always caught behind a coat of pain

[00:00:58] Beneath the marble fingernails of kings and saints

[00:01:02] And in the theatre curtain where they hang a drape

[00:01:05] Or in the ticket pocket where your hands escape

[00:01:09] Before they start to wander

[00:01:11] Or they start to shrink

[00:01:15] You rub your eye a little and appear to blink

[00:01:20] And then she caught you staring

[00:01:22] She knows what you're thinking

[00:01:26] What got into you is not a ghost as such

[00:01:29] It was just dust

[00:02:14] Here comes the juggernaut

[00:02:16] Here come The Poisoners

[00:02:18] They choke the life and land

[00:02:20] And rob the joy from us

[00:02:21] Why do they taste of sugar

[00:02:23] Oh when they're made of money

[00:02:25] Here come the Lamb of God

[00:02:27] And the butcher's boy Sonny

[00:03:42] Why did they dam the land

[00:03:44] Why did they flood the plain

[00:03:46] Did they erase the stain

[00:03:47] And wipe away the name

[00:03:49] You kept your mouth well shut

[00:03:51] Appeared to turn your coat

[00:03:53] Now there's a name for you but it's stuck in my throat

[00:05:07] Well I believe each us

[00:05:09] Became a small dust

[00:05:15] Well I believe each us

[00:05:17] Became a small dust