Song | Coal-Train Robberies |
Artist | Elvis Costello |
Album | Spike |
作词 : MacManus | |
Yesterday's coal train came to rest in the bitter cutting | |
And as the signals took an age to change it was easy pickings | |
So you go to the movies where they smash it up | |
You want to feel your heart pumping it makes you feel good | |
All through the karaoke girls were squealing the hits | |
As another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits | |
While all the time in the camptown theatres of Piccadilly | |
They're going to throw a black-face minstrel show for the barefoot children | |
That they're always selling | |
They'll say "It's quaint" as the guilty ones faint and claim they ain't underneath this paint | |
We interrupt these liberal saints with their whips and watermelon | |
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery | |
It's like another world, or it had better be | |
So we return to whitewashed pout of his committed lips | |
Since he was declared the long lost fountain | |
Of youth that drips and drips and drips | |
They'll be sending him round from door to door, | |
To sell you back what's already yours | |
"So many good deeds, so little time" | |
Say the advertising agency swine | |
When man has destroyed what he thinks he owns | |
I hope no living thing cries over his bones | |
If you don't believe that I'm going for good | |
You can count the days I'm gone and chop up | |
The chairs for firewood | |
Reports are coming in of a coal-train robbery | |
It's like another world, or it had better be |
zuò cí : MacManus | |
Yesterday' s coal train came to rest in the bitter cutting | |
And as the signals took an age to change it was easy pickings | |
So you go to the movies where they smash it up | |
You want to feel your heart pumping it makes you feel good | |
All through the karaoke girls were squealing the hits | |
As another MercedesBenz gets blown to bits | |
While all the time in the camptown theatres of Piccadilly | |
They' re going to throw a blackface minstrel show for the barefoot children | |
That they' re always selling | |
They' ll say " It' s quaint" as the guilty ones faint and claim they ain' t underneath this paint | |
We interrupt these liberal saints with their whips and watermelon | |
Reports are coming in of a coaltrain robbery | |
It' s like another world, or it had better be | |
So we return to whitewashed pout of his committed lips | |
Since he was declared the long lost fountain | |
Of youth that drips and drips and drips | |
They' ll be sending him round from door to door, | |
To sell you back what' s already yours | |
" So many good deeds, so little time" | |
Say the advertising agency swine | |
When man has destroyed what he thinks he owns | |
I hope no living thing cries over his bones | |
If you don' t believe that I' m going for good | |
You can count the days I' m gone and chop up | |
The chairs for firewood | |
Reports are coming in of a coaltrain robbery | |
It' s like another world, or it had better be |