《Bedlam》歌词

歌曲： Bedlam

所属专辑：The Delivery Man

歌手： Elvis Costello&The Impost

时长： 04:47

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Bedlam (混乱) - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)/The Imposters[00:00:00]

I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild[00:00:09]

I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child[00:00:14]

The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived[00:00:19]

They'd throw us back across the border if they knew that we survived[00:00:24]

And they were surprised to see us[00:00:28]

So they greeted us with palms[00:00:31]

They asked for ammunition acts of contrition and small alms[00:00:33]

I might recite a small prayer[00:00:38]

If I ever said them[00:00:42]

I lay down on an iron frame[00:00:43]

Found myself in bedlam[00:00:46]

I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise[00:00:48]

Wailing echoes down the corridors[00:00:53]

I've got this imaginary radio and I'm punching up the dial[00:01:05]

I've got the A C trained on the T V so it won't blow up in my eye[00:01:10]

And everything that I thought fanciful and mocked as too extreme[00:01:15]

Must be family entertainment here in the strange land of my dreams[00:01:20]

Now I'm practicing my likeness of St Francis of Assisi[00:01:25]

For if I hold my hand outstretched[00:01:30]

A little bird comes to me[00:01:32]

I might recite a small prayer[00:01:35]

If I ever said them[00:01:38]

I lay down on an iron frame[00:01:40]

Found myself in bedlam[00:01:42]

Escaping from the fingers that were stretching through the bars[00:01:45]

Wailing echoes down the corridors[00:01:50]

The player piano picks out ＂Life Goes On＂[00:02:03]

Ring tone rang out ＂Jerusalem＂[00:02:07]

And in this pit of sadness[00:02:12]

Where the rank of wretched plunge[00:02:14]

We've buried all the innocents[00:02:17]

Now we must bury revenge[00:02:20]

They've got this scared and decorated girl strapped to the steel trunk of a mustang[00:02:32]

And then they drove her down a cypress grove where traitors hang and stars still spangle[00:02:36]

They dangled flags and other rags along a coloured thread of twine[00:02:41]

And then they dragged that bruised and purple heart along the road to Palestine[00:02:46]

Someone went off muttering he mentioned thirty pieces[00:02:52]

Easter saw a slaughtering each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces[00:02:56]

Then my thoughts returned to vengeance but I put up no resistance[00:03:01]

Though I seemed a long way from my home[00:03:06]

It really was no distance[00:03:09]

And I might recite a small prayer[00:03:11]

If I ever said them[00:03:13]

I lay down on an iron frame[00:03:16]

Found myself in bedlam[00:03:18]

Bowing like an actor acknowledging applause[00:03:21]

Playing the Crusader who was conquering the Moors[00:03:26]

And he knew the consequences but he won't accept the cause[00:03:31]

Wailing echoes down the corridors[00:03:36]