《The Man Who Would Speak True(Album)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Man Who Would Speak True (Album) - Blitzen Trapper

[00:00:08] I had a lover her name was Grace

[00:00:11] She found me down in a lonely place

[00:00:14] She dug me out with an old jaw bone

[00:00:17] She dressed me up for to take me home

[00:00:19] She fed me words that I could not taste

[00:00:22] For I had no tongue it had been replaced

[00:00:25] By a green and a growing flower which grew

[00:00:28] And I knew if I ever spoke I would speak true

[00:00:38] We lived together in an old hotel

[00:00:41] A broke-down palace with a wishing well

[00:00:43] The neighbor girl taught me how to spell

[00:00:46] And how to steal what I could not sell

[00:00:49] But I fed my tongue on the Devils rum

[00:00:52] In a roadhouse run by a godless bum

[00:00:55] On a drunken night with a stolen gun

[00:00:58] I shot my lover as she made to run

[00:01:01] The judge said Son what have you done

[00:01:04] But I didnt speak a word no I didnt speak one

[00:01:07] And the judge sent me away

[00:01:11] And they buried my Grace yeah the very next day

[00:01:20] They sent me out on a midnight train

[00:01:22] In the rain rolling down through the dusty plain

[00:01:25] Four men sitting with an old shotgun

[00:01:28] Silver stars pinned on every one

[00:01:30] They busted my mouth for to get at my tongue

[00:01:33] To see just how this had all begun

[00:01:37] So I opened my mouth like a dragons breath

[00:01:40] I only spoke truth but it only brought death

[00:01:43] And I laid those boys to rest

[00:01:47] For the truth in truth is a terrible jest

[00:01:55] For there aint no road but the road to home

[00:01:58] There aint no crops but the ones youve sown

[00:02:01] And if you learn one thing from me

[00:02:06] You better guard your tongue like your enemy

[00:02:14] I came to ground in a one-horse town

[00:02:17] On the western rim where the sun goes down

[00:02:19] Where a branded man might start again

[00:02:22] For to right his wrong for to lose his sin

[00:02:25] But my tongue kept growing it would not cease

[00:02:28] I grew quite weary couldnt get no release

[00:02:31] So I went to the magistrate and turned myself in

[00:02:34] Picked up a shovel and he made the grin

[00:02:37] And they planted me by the sea

[00:02:42] Now the birds of the air make nests on me