《All These Strangers》歌词

歌曲： All These Strangers

所属专辑：National Ransom

歌手： Elvis Costello

时长： 05:52

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All These Strangers - Elvis Costello[00:00:00]

Written by：Elvis Costello/T.-Bone Burnett[00:00:00]

Mistreat me darling and I might just disappear[00:00:01]

Upon freighter running dark out of Algiers[00:00:08]

Put tiny grains in children's tears[00:00:14]

While taking 25% of all the flashbulbs and mementoes[00:00:21]

From the mechanized divisions rolling over your frontiers[00:00:29]

I saw my baby talking to a man today[00:00:35]

Speaking softly in a confidential way[00:00:43]

I saw a shadow pull his glove off[00:00:49]

As a bluebird flew over[00:00:57]

Life's is no pleasure[00:01:00]

When you doubt the one you love[00:01:02]

Who are all these strangers[00:01:08]

I never will go back again[00:01:14]

Go back into the past[00:01:21]

The flood is rising fast[00:01:24]

You can break your window and look down[00:01:30]

Into a muddy glass[00:01:37]

For it's mirror or lens to burn[00:01:40]

There was a deal done in Benghazi and Belgrade[00:01:47]

Upon a scimitar or other crooked blade[00:01:55]

Ransacks and loots vacated suits[00:02:02]

And pistol points but never shoots[00:02:10]

Army sitting in a locomotive yard without their boots[00:02:14]

Upstairs your man is painting the rain out in the street[00:02:24]

Imagines woman that he's destined still to meet[00:02:31]

He's trying sidetrack one to count on[00:02:39]

Caught somewhere between countess or a courtesan[00:02:46]

And it's only love to feign and then it's gone[00:02:52]

Who are all these strangers[00:02:57]

He's a privateer as dusk gets near[00:03:06]

A brigand after dark his victim lined with chalk[00:03:11]

A corsair filled with horsehair to the core[00:03:20]

Dashed on your eyes of adamantine[00:03:27]

You despised his stripling whine[00:03:31]

That little smudger and the mouthpiece that he's with[00:03:38]

Using his clause just like a practised fingersmith[00:03:46]

I dreamed I took his digit prints[00:03:53]

And then I sewed them on a villain's hands[00:04:01]

Watched him ransom and demand[00:04:05]

Until called the flatfoots in[00:04:09]

I never will go back again[00:04:16]

Go back into the past[00:04:22]

The flood is rising fast[00:04:26]

You can break your window and look down[00:04:32]

Into a muddy glass[00:04:38]

For it's a mirror or lens to burn[00:04:42]

Who are all these strangers[00:04:49]

All these strangers[00:04:59]

Sat down on a narrow bed[00:05:07]

Thought about the things she said[00:05:11]

All these strangers[00:05:14]

How I wished the night would never end[00:05:22]

Tried to stop the days ahead[00:05:27]

I'd carve her name down in the wood[00:05:29]

Some small remembrance if I could[00:05:34]