所属专辑:The Wishing Chair
歌手: 10000 Maniacs
时长: 03:17
Everyone A Puzzle Lover (LP版) - 10000 Maniacs (一万个疯子)[00:00:00]
Written by:John Lombardo[00:00:00]
Why are some men born[00:00:08]
With minds that earn degrees[00:00:10]
The loving cups[00:00:15]
Gilded plaques[00:00:16]
Grace their study walls[00:00:18]
Hide the cracks[00:00:20]
While their genius is turned[00:00:21]
To works of tyranny then[00:00:25]
Off to market to market[00:00:29]
Go selling these[00:00:31]
With words so fiery and persuasive[00:00:36]
They steal cunningly[00:00:40]
Riches no one can exceed[00:00:43]
And why are some men born[00:00:47]
With a fate of poverty[00:00:48]
One firm bed[00:00:54]
For a swollen back[00:00:55]
Year by year[00:00:57]
The bodies wracked while[00:00:59]
Their obedience is had[00:01:01]
With gradual defeat[00:01:05]
By the pace by the pace[00:01:08]
And the urgency[00:01:10]
Through a muddled thought[00:01:16]
They phrase it[00:01:17]
God knows we're deceived[00:01:18]
Barter for[00:01:22]
What they need[00:01:25]
And where they go[00:01:29]
Disdain and jeering[00:01:32]
For fools to call[00:01:36]
The noble peasantry[00:01:38]
O how it puzzles me[00:01:43]
I pressed flat the accordion pleats[00:01:52]
That had gathered in his cotton sleeves[00:01:54]
While he thumbed[00:01:58]
Yes thumbed I wouldn't say caressed[00:01:59]
The final piece[00:02:02]
A mountain's crest[00:02:04]
Soon to reply assuredly[00:02:06]
O for man aged ninety years[00:02:11]
No words to waste on sermons[00:02:16]
He'd be pleased to answer[00:02:19]
Short and sincere[00:02:22]
Girl there's a nonsense[00:02:26]
In all these heaven measures[00:02:29]
It's a heathen creed[00:02:34]
So your grandma says[00:02:35]
But better to live by[00:02:38]
Drink it all in before it's dry[00:02:40]
He ended there with a rattle[00:02:49]
Cough cough[00:02:51]
I took away the long gone cold coffee cup[00:02:52]
As a trail of camel ashes fell[00:03:03]
On the floor[00:03:06]