《Bedlam》歌词

歌曲： Bedlam

所属专辑：Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album

歌手： Elvis Costello & The Impo

时长： 04:48

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

I've got this phosphorescent portrait[00:00:11]

Of gentle Jesus meek and mild[00:00:13]

I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with[00:00:16]

Carrying another man's child[00:00:18]

The solitary star announcing[00:00:20]

Vacancy burnt out as we arrived[00:00:22]

They'd throw us back across the border[00:00:25]

If they knew that we survived[00:00:28]

And they were surprised to see us[00:00:30]

So they greeted us with palms[00:00:33]

They asked for ammunition[00:00:35]

Acts of contrition and small alms[00:00:37]

And I might recite a small prayer[00:00:40]

If I ever said them[00:00:43]

I lay down on an iron frame[00:00:45]

And found myself in bedlam[00:00:48]

I wish that I could take something[00:00:50]

For drowning out the noise[00:00:52]

Wailing echoes down the corridors[00:00:55]

I've got this imaginary radio[00:01:07]

And I'm punching up the dial[00:01:10]

I've got the AC trained on the TV[00:01:12]

So it won't blow up in my eye[00:01:15]

There a thing that I thought fanciful[00:01:17]

And mocked as too extreme[00:01:19]

Must be family entertainment here[00:01:22]

In the strange land of my dreams[00:01:25]

And I'm practicing my likeness[00:01:27]

Of St Francis of Assisi[00:01:29]

For if I hold my hand outstretched[00:01:32]

A little bird comes to me[00:01:34]

And I might recite a small prayer[00:01:37]

If I ever said them[00:01:39]

I lay down on an iron frame[00:01:42]

And found myself in bedlam[00:01:44]

Escaping from the fingers[00:01:47]

That were stretching through the bars[00:01:49]

Wailing echoes down the corridors[00:01:52]

The player piano picks out life goes on[00:02:04]

The ring tone rang out Jerusalem[00:02:09]

Into this pit of sadness[00:02:14]

Where the rank of wretched plunge[00:02:16]

We've buried all the innocents[00:02:19]

Now we must bury revenge[00:02:21]

They've got this scared and decorated girl[00:02:33]

Strapped to the steel trunk of a Mustang[00:02:36]

And then they drove her down a cypress grove[00:02:38]

Where traitors hang and stars still spangle[00:02:41]

They dangled flags and other rags[00:02:43]

Along a colored thread of twine[00:02:46]

And then they dragged that bruised and purple heart[00:02:48]

Along the road to Palestine[00:02:50]

Someone went off muttering[00:02:53]

He mentioned thirty pieces[00:02:55]

Easter saw a slaughtering[00:02:58]

Each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces[00:03:00]

Then my thoughts returned to vengeance[00:03:03]

But I put up no resistance[00:03:05]

Though I seemed a long way from our home[00:03:08]

It really was no distance[00:03:10]

And I might recite a small prayer[00:03:13]

If I ever said them[00:03:15]

I lay down on an iron frame[00:03:18]

And found myself in bedlam[00:03:20]

Bowing like an actor[00:03:23]

Acknowledging applause[00:03:25]

Playing the crusader[00:03:28]

Who was conquering the Moors[00:03:30]

And he knew the consequences[00:03:32]

But he won't accept the cause[00:03:34]

Wailing echoes down the corridors[00:03:37]