《Red Cotton(Album Version)》歌词

歌曲： Red Cotton(Album Version)

所属专辑：Secret， Profane and Sugarcane

歌手： Elvis Costello

时长： 05:43

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Red Cotton (红棉) (Album Version) - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)[00:00:00]

I'm cutting up her pure white dress[00:00:15]

That I dyed red[00:00:23]

That I dyed red[00:00:26]

I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets[00:00:30]

What time erases and memory mocks[00:00:38]

I'll send them over the ocean foam[00:00:45]

Right into those gentle European homes[00:00:53]

The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool[00:01:07]

Over the waves the Royal Navy rules[00:01:14]

To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin[00:01:21]

Where certain history ends and shame begins[00:01:27]

Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot[00:01:35]

Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots[00:01:41]

They packed them tight inside those coffin ships[00:01:48]

And took them to the brand new world of[00:01:54]

Auction blocks and whips[00:01:58]

I'm cutting up her pure white dress[00:02:02]

That I dyed red[00:02:10]

That I dyed red[00:02:14]

I'm putting scraps in cheap tin lockets[00:02:17]

What time erases and memory mocks[00:02:24]

I'll send them over the ocean foam[00:02:32]

Right into those gentle European homes[00:02:40]

White is the sheet on your fine linen bed[00:02:50]

The blood stained red on each cotton thread[00:02:57]

Merchants will gather at St George's Hall[00:03:04]

To unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall[00:03:09]

So picture the scene on the Old Salt House docks[00:03:19]

Where they loaded the iron shackles and locks[00:03:26]

Between a sandstone crocodile a barrel and a bale[00:03:32]

You will see the nameless faces they were offering for sale[00:03:39]

So I sing the praises of God's glory[00:03:50]

As a blue cetacean floats in the basement[00:03:58]

An elephant on the second storey[00:04:05]

They queue all day to see him[00:04:12]

In my American Museum[00:04:16]

But the Lord will judge us with fire and thunder[00:04:25]

As man continues in all his blunders[00:04:32]

It's only money[00:04:39]

It's only numbers[00:04:42]

Maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wonders[00:04:46]

But man is feeble[00:04:59]

Man is puny[00:05:03]

And if it should divide the Union[00:05:07]

There is no man that should own another[00:05:15]

When he can't even recognise his sister and his brother[00:05:22]