《VICEROY’S Row》歌词

歌曲： VICEROY’S Row

所属专辑：Wise Up Ghost (Deluxe)

歌手： Elvis Costello And The Ro

时长： 05:01

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VICEROY'S Row - Elvis Costello & The Roots[00:00:04]

Now there's a crank in every crowd[00:00:12]

Sprinkling gunpowder[00:00:15]

Seems that everything is about to blow[00:00:18]

They lit the burning paper[00:00:24]

With a waxen taper[00:00:26]

Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row[00:00:29]

And they're gathering flowers[00:00:36]

In the crack of hours[00:00:38]

Where all of the nightmares go[00:00:41]

Watching the pipeline as it overflowed[00:00:45]

Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row[00:00:51]

He made a fortune out of barbed wire[00:01:00]

In the last days of the Empire[00:01:04]

Built a cast-iron curtain[00:01:06]

Just to keep control[00:01:08]

He was a tycoon then a cheapskate[00:01:12]

Went out looking for a keepsake[00:01:14]

To tuck into his suitcase on Viceroy's Row[00:01:17]

And they're gathering flowers[00:01:24]

In the crack of hours[00:01:26]

Where all of the nightmares go[00:01:29]

Watching the pipeline as it overflowed[00:01:33]

Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row[00:01:39]

He had a satchel full of cash[00:01:49]

And dishes full of ashes[00:01:52]

He went from boom to bust[00:01:55]

In the blinking of a lash[00:01:57]

Heard the rat-a-tat of the late patrol[00:02:00]

Shooting out the lights up on Viceroy's Row[00:02:05]

And they're gathering flowers[00:02:12]

In the crack of hours[00:02:14]

Where all of the nightmares go[00:02:17]

They're coming for him slowly[00:02:21]

Now the war is over[00:02:24]

Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row[00:02:27]

The woman in a blindfold[00:02:37]

She doesn't want her hand held[00:02:40]

Walking through a minefield[00:02:43]

Saying "How does this feel "[00:02:46]

Stepping on the quicksand[00:02:48]

Going down slow[00:02:51]

Hiding up here on Viceroy's Row[00:02:53]

Nothing satisfies[00:02:59]

The ruins of his blue eyes[00:03:01]

Like blood stains on a diamond mine[00:03:04]

And deep within you felt[00:03:10]

Not one measure of his guilt[00:03:12]

Staring in the dark up on Viceroy's Row[00:03:15]

Yet her penitent lover[00:03:21]

Took a ribbon of rubber[00:03:24]

Tied her to the bed made of silken thread[00:03:26]

But without an ounce of mercy[00:03:31]

They denounced him with a curse[00:03:33]

Hammering on the door upon Viceroy's Row[00:03:36]

Now his little concubine in her cemetery drag[00:03:47]

Her face all smeared with charcoal[00:03:52]

Is leaving all her cares so[00:03:55]

Take 500 acres and see what you can sow[00:03:58]

We came to overthrow those on Viceroy's Row[00:04:03]

They're gathering flowers[00:04:10]

In the crack of hours[00:04:12]

Where all of the nightmares go[00:04:15]

Watching the pipeline as it overflowed[00:04:19]

Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row[00:04:25]