The Mariner's Revenge Song

The Mariner's Revenge Song Lyrics

Song	The Mariner's Revenge Song
Artist	The Decemberists
Album	We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live 04.11 - 08.11)
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	作曲 : Meloy
	We are two mariners
	Our ships' sole survivors
	In this belly of a whale
	Its ribs our ceiling beams,
	Its guts our carpeting,
	I guess we have some time to kill
	You may not remember me,
	I was a child of three
	And you a lad of eighteen
	But I remember you,
	And I will relate to you
	How our histories interweave
	At the time you were a rake and a roustabout
	Spending all your money on the whores and hounds
	Oh, oh
	You had a charming air
	All cheap and debonair
	My widowed mother found so sweet
	And so she took you in,
	Her sheets still warm with him,
	Now filled with filth and foul disease
	As time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken mess
	Leaving my mother a poor consumptive wretch
	Oh, oh
	And then you disappeared,
	Your gambling arrears
	The only thing you left behind
	And then the magistrate
	Reclaimed our small estate
	And my poor mother lost her mind
	Then one day in spring my dear, sweet mother died
	But before she did I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
	Oh, oh
	"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his
	Fingers to splinters; drag him to a hole until he
	Wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his grave"
	It took me fifteen years
	To swallow all my tears
	Among the urchins in the street
	Until a priory
	Took pity and hired me
	To keep their vestry nice and neat
	But never once in the employ of these holy men
	Did I ever once turn my mind from the thought of revenge
	Oh, oh
	One night I overheard
	The prior exchanging words
	With a penitent whaler from the sea
	The captain of his ship
	Who matched you toe to tip
	Was known for wanton cruelty
	The following day I shipped to sea with a privateer
	And in the whistle of the wind I could almost hear:
	Oh, oh
	"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his
	Fingers to splinters; drag him to a hole until he
	Wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his grave
	"There is one thing I must say to you
	As you sail across the sea
	Always your mother will watch over you
	As you avenge this wicked deed"
	And then that fateful night
	We had you in our sight
	After twenty months at sea
	Your starboard flank abeam,
	I was getting my muskets clean
	When came this rumbling from beneath
	The ocean shook, the sky went black, and the captain quailed
	And before us grew the angry jaws of a giant whale
	Oh, oh
	[screaming]
	Oh
	[screaming]
	Don't know how I survived
	The crew all was chewed alive
	I must have slipped between its teeth
	But, oh what providence,
	What divine intelligence,
	That you should survive as well as me
	It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear
	So lean in close and I will whisper the last words you'll hear
	Oh, oh

	zuo qu : Meloy
	We are two mariners
	Our ships' sole survivors
	In this belly of a whale
	Its ribs our ceiling beams,
	Its guts our carpeting,
	I guess we have some time to kill
	You may not remember me,
	I was a child of three
	And you a lad of eighteen
	But I remember you,
	And I will relate to you
	How our histories interweave
	At the time you were a rake and a roustabout
	Spending all your money on the whores and hounds
	Oh, oh
	You had a charming air
	All cheap and debonair
	My widowed mother found so sweet
	And so she took you in,
	Her sheets still warm with him,
	Now filled with filth and foul disease
	As time wore on you proved a debtridden drunken mess
	Leaving my mother a poor consumptive wretch
	Oh, oh
	And then you disappeared,
	Your gambling arrears
	The only thing you left behind
	And then the magistrate
	Reclaimed our small estate
	And my poor mother lost her mind
	Then one day in spring my dear, sweet mother died
	But before she did I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
	Oh, oh
	" Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his
	Fingers to splinters drag him to a hole until he
	Wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his grave"
	It took me fifteen years
	To swallow all my tears
	Among the urchins in the street
	Until a priory
	Took pity and hired me
	To keep their vestry nice and neat
	But never once in the employ of these holy men
	Did I ever once turn my mind from the thought of revenge
	Oh, oh
	One night I overheard
	The prior exchanging words
	With a penitent whaler from the sea
	The captain of his ship
	Who matched you toe to tip
	Was known for wanton cruelty
	The following day I shipped to sea with a privateer
	And in the whistle of the wind I could almost hear:
	Oh, oh
	" Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his
	Fingers to splinters drag him to a hole until he
	Wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his grave
	" There is one thing I must say to you
	As you sail across the sea
	Always your mother will watch over you
	As you avenge this wicked deed"
	And then that fateful night
	We had you in our sight
	After twenty months at sea
	Your starboard flank abeam,
	I was getting my muskets clean
	When came this rumbling from beneath
	The ocean shook, the sky went black, and the captain quailed
	And before us grew the angry jaws of a giant whale
	Oh, oh
	screaming
	Oh
	screaming
	Don' t know how I survived
	The crew all was chewed alive
	I must have slipped between its teeth
	But, oh what providence,
	What divine intelligence,
	That you should survive as well as me
	It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear
	So lean in close and I will whisper the last words you' ll hear
	Oh, oh

	zuò qǔ : Meloy
	We are two mariners
	Our ships' sole survivors
	In this belly of a whale
	Its ribs our ceiling beams,
	Its guts our carpeting,
	I guess we have some time to kill
	You may not remember me,
	I was a child of three
	And you a lad of eighteen
	But I remember you,
	And I will relate to you
	How our histories interweave
	At the time you were a rake and a roustabout
	Spending all your money on the whores and hounds
	Oh, oh
	You had a charming air
	All cheap and debonair
	My widowed mother found so sweet
	And so she took you in,
	Her sheets still warm with him,
	Now filled with filth and foul disease
	As time wore on you proved a debtridden drunken mess
	Leaving my mother a poor consumptive wretch
	Oh, oh
	And then you disappeared,
	Your gambling arrears
	The only thing you left behind
	And then the magistrate
	Reclaimed our small estate
	And my poor mother lost her mind
	Then one day in spring my dear, sweet mother died
	But before she did I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
	Oh, oh
	" Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his
	Fingers to splinters drag him to a hole until he
	Wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his grave"
	It took me fifteen years
	To swallow all my tears
	Among the urchins in the street
	Until a priory
	Took pity and hired me
	To keep their vestry nice and neat
	But never once in the employ of these holy men
	Did I ever once turn my mind from the thought of revenge
	Oh, oh
	One night I overheard
	The prior exchanging words
	With a penitent whaler from the sea
	The captain of his ship
	Who matched you toe to tip
	Was known for wanton cruelty
	The following day I shipped to sea with a privateer
	And in the whistle of the wind I could almost hear:
	Oh, oh
	" Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his
	Fingers to splinters drag him to a hole until he
	Wakes up naked clawing at the ceiling of his grave
	" There is one thing I must say to you
	As you sail across the sea
	Always your mother will watch over you
	As you avenge this wicked deed"
	And then that fateful night
	We had you in our sight
	After twenty months at sea
	Your starboard flank abeam,
	I was getting my muskets clean
	When came this rumbling from beneath
	The ocean shook, the sky went black, and the captain quailed
	And before us grew the angry jaws of a giant whale
	Oh, oh
	screaming
	Oh
	screaming
	Don' t know how I survived
	The crew all was chewed alive
	I must have slipped between its teeth
	But, oh what providence,
	What divine intelligence,
	That you should survive as well as me
	It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear
	So lean in close and I will whisper the last words you' ll hear
	Oh, oh

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