所属专辑:My Lives
歌手: Billy Joel
时长: 03:43
Well I'm on the Downeaster Alexa[00:00:10]
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound[00:00:16]
I have charted a course to the Vineyard[00:00:21]
But tonight I am Nantucket bound[00:00:27]
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday[00:00:33]
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay[00:00:39]
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home[00:00:44]
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone[00:00:49]
So I could own my Downeaster Alexa[00:00:53]
And I go where the ocean is deep[00:00:59]
There are giants out there in the canyons[00:01:04]
And a good captain can't fall asleep[00:01:10]
I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes[00:01:16]
I know there's fish out there but where God only knows[00:01:21]
They say these waters aren't what they used to be[00:01:26]
But I've got people back on land who count on me[00:01:32]
So if you see my Downeaster Alexa[00:01:35]
And if you work with the rod and the reel[00:01:41]
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis[00:01:47]
And I still have my hands on the wheel[00:01:52]
Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa[00:02:29]
More and more miles from shore every year[00:02:35]
Since they tell me I can't sell no stripers[00:02:40]
And there's no luck in swordfishing here[00:02:45]
I was a bayman like my father was before[00:02:51]
Can't make a living as a bayman anymore[00:02:57]
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea[00:03:02]
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me[00:03:07]