《Mildred Pierce Reporting 2 (Old Sarge)》歌词

[00:00:00] Mildred Pierce Reporting 2 (Old Sarge) - William S. Burroughs (威廉·S·柏洛兹)

[00:00:05] From here to eternity.

[00:00:08] Mildred Pierce reporting:

[00:00:10] I was there. I saw it.

[00:00:13] I saw women thrown down on Fifth Avenue

[00:00:16] And raped in their mink coats

[00:00:20] By blacks and whites and yellows

[00:00:23] While street urchins stripped

[00:00:25] The rings from their fingers.

[00:00:28] A young officer stood nearby.

[00:00:31] "Aren't you going to do something?" I demanded.

[00:00:34] He looked at me and yawned.

[00:00:37] I found Colonel Bradshaw bivouacking in the Ritz.

[00:00:42] I told him bluntly what was going on.

[00:00:45] His eyes glinted shamelessly as he said,

[00:00:48] "Well you have to take a broad

[00:00:51] General view of things."

[00:00:54] And that's what I have been doing.

[00:00:57] Taking a broad general view of

[00:00:59] American troops raping and murdering

[00:01:02] Helpless civilians while

[00:01:03] American officers stand around and yawn.

[00:01:08] "Been at it a long time, lady.

[00:01:11] It's the old army game from here to eternity."

[00:01:15] It pays to pay the boys off.

[00:01:18] Tacitus describes a typical scene...

[00:01:21] "If a woman or a good looking boy

[00:01:23] Fell into their hands they were torn

[00:01:25] To pieces in the struggle for possession

[00:01:28] And the survivors were left

[00:01:30] To cut each others' throats."

[00:01:33] "Well, there's no need to be that messy.

[00:01:36] Why waste a good-looking boy?

[00:01:39] Mother loving American Army run by old women,

[00:01:43] Many of them religious, my God;

[00:01:46] Hanging Amercian soldiers

[00:01:48] For raping and murdering civilians..."

[00:01:51] Old Sarge bellows from here to eternity.

[00:01:53] "WHAT THE BLOODY F**KING HELL ARE CIVILIANS FOR?

[00:01:57] SOLDIERS' PAY."

[00:02:00] -End-