| Song | Sleep of the Just |
| Artist | Elvis Costello |
| Album | King of America |
| 作词 : MacManus | |
| The soldier asked my name and did i come here very often | |
| Well i thought that he was asking me to dance | |
| In my holy coat and hat and him in his red bonnet | |
| We'd have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance | |
| [chorus] | |
| And now you say that you've got to go | |
| Well if you must you must | |
| I suppose that you need the sleep of the just | |
| Well it was a powerful day and there were black crows in the road | |
| And i kept my strong opinions to my chest | |
| I suppose i should have told them that i was on fire for you | |
| When the bus burst into flames outside some place, 'the poet's rest' | |
| [chorus] | |
| A girl woke up in a naked light and said 'oh no not again' | |
| He even looked like her brother in the army but she never mentions him | |
| He'll be tucked up in his bed tonight with his dirty-pictures girl | |
| Saying, 'you're some mother's daughter you know or is it | |
| Immaterial girl?' | |
| Now she's pinned up upon the barracks wall in her home town | |
| All the soldiers taking turns with their attentions | |
| And as they speculate what she'd look like beneath that thin nightgown | |
| His family pride was rising up as he cast his eyes down |
| zuò cí : MacManus | |
| The soldier asked my name and did i come here very often | |
| Well i thought that he was asking me to dance | |
| In my holy coat and hat and him in his red bonnet | |
| We' d have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance | |
| chorus | |
| And now you say that you' ve got to go | |
| Well if you must you must | |
| I suppose that you need the sleep of the just | |
| Well it was a powerful day and there were black crows in the road | |
| And i kept my strong opinions to my chest | |
| I suppose i should have told them that i was on fire for you | |
| When the bus burst into flames outside some place, ' the poet' s rest' | |
| chorus | |
| A girl woke up in a naked light and said ' oh no not again' | |
| He even looked like her brother in the army but she never mentions him | |
| He' ll be tucked up in his bed tonight with his dirtypictures girl | |
| Saying, ' you' re some mother' s daughter you know or is it | |
| Immaterial girl?' | |
| Now she' s pinned up upon the barracks wall in her home town | |
| All the soldiers taking turns with their attentions | |
| And as they speculate what she' d look like beneath that thin nightgown | |
| His family pride was rising up as he cast his eyes down |