《Last Great American Whale》歌词

歌曲： Last Great American Whale

所属专辑：The Sire Years: Complete Albums Box (Explicit)

歌手： Lou Reed

时长： 03:42

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Last Great American Whale - Lou Reed[00:00:00]

They say he didn't have an enemy[00:00:01]

His was a greatness to behold[00:00:04]

He was the last surviving progeny[00:00:09]

The last one on this side of the world[00:00:11]

He measured a half mile from tip to tail[00:00:17]

Silver and black with powerful fins[00:00:19]

They say he could split a mountain in two[00:00:26]

That's how we got the Grand Canyon[00:00:28]

Last great American whale[00:00:33]

Last great American whale[00:00:37]

Last great American whale[00:00:41]

Last great American whale[00:00:45]

Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes[00:00:50]

Some say they saw him off of Florida[00:00:52]

My mother said she saw him in Chinatown[00:00:57]

But you can't always trust your mother[00:01:01]

Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day[00:01:06]

The lighthouse glows ghostly there at night[00:01:10]

The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son[00:01:14]

And he'd been on death row since 1958[00:01:18]

The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig[00:01:22]

Spit on Indians and lots worse[00:01:25]

The old chief buried a hatchet in his head[00:01:31]

Life compared to death for him seemed worse[00:01:34]

The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing[00:01:39]

And tried to conjure up a storm or rain[00:01:43]

The harbor parted the great whale sprang full up[00:01:47]

And caused a hugh tidal wave[00:01:52]

The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief[00:01:55]

The tribe let out a roar[00:01:59]

The whites were drowned the browns and reds set free[00:02:03]

But sadly one thing more[00:02:07]

Some local yokel member of the NRA[00:02:11]

Kept a bazooka in his living room[00:02:16]

And thinking he had the chief in his sight[00:02:19]

Blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon[00:02:23]

Last great American whale[00:02:28]

Last great American whale[00:02:32]

Last great American whale[00:02:36]

Last great American whale[00:02:40]

Well Americans don't care for much of anything[00:02:44]

Land and water the least[00:02:47]

And animal life is low on the totem pole[00:02:53]

With human life not worth more than infected yeast[00:02:57]

Americans don't care too much for beauty[00:03:01]

They'll shit in a river dump battery acid in a stream[00:03:04]

They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach[00:03:09]

And complain if they can't swim[00:03:12]

They say things are done for the majority[00:03:17]

Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear[00:03:20]

It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me[00:03:25]

"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over they're done"[00:03:28]