《Little Palaces》歌词

歌曲： Little Palaces

所属专辑：The Costello Show: King Of America

歌手： Elvis Costello

时长： 03:49

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Little Palaces - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)[00:00:00]

Written by：Declan MacManus[00:00:00]

In Chocolate Town all the trains are painted brown[00:00:12]

On the silver paper of the wrapper[00:00:16]

There's a dapper little man[00:00:21]

And he wears a wax mustache[00:00:23]

That he twists with nicotine fingers[00:00:26]

As he drops his cigarette ash[00:00:28]

Someone comes and sleeps with it[00:00:31]

Then he doffs his cap[00:00:34]

There's a rat in someone's bedroom[00:00:36]

They're shutting someone's trap[00:00:39]

They'll soon be pulling down the little palaces[00:00:41]

And the doors swing back and forward from[00:00:49]

The past into the present[00:00:52]

And the bedside crucifixion turns from wood to phosphorescent[00:00:54]

And they're moving problem families from[00:00:59]

The South up to the North[00:01:02]

Mother's crying over some soft soap opera divorce[00:01:05]

And you say you didn't do it but[00:01:10]

You know you did of course[00:01:12]

And they'll soon be pulling down the little palaces[00:01:15]

It's like shouting in a matchbox[00:01:23]

Filled with plasterboard and hope[00:01:25]

Like a picture of Prince William in[00:01:28]

The arms of John the Pope[00:01:31]

There's a world of good intentions and pity in their eyes[00:01:33]

The sedated homes of England theirs to vandalize[00:01:38]

So you knock the kids about a bit because[00:01:44]

They've got your name[00:01:47]

And you knock the kids about a bit until[00:01:49]

They feel the same[00:01:52]

And they feel like knocking down the little palaces[00:01:54]

You're the twinkle in your daddy's eye[00:02:23]

A name you spray and scribble[00:02:26]

You made the girls all turn their heads and in turn[00:02:30]

They made you miserable[00:02:34]

To be the heir apparent to the kingdom of the invisible[00:02:37]

So you knock the kids about a bit because[00:02:44]

They've got your name[00:02:47]

And you knock the kids about a bit until[00:02:49]

They feel the same[00:02:52]

And they feel like knocking down the little palaces[00:02:55]