We Call Upon the Author歌词

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Nick Cave/Warren Ellis
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[00:15.040]Oh what we once thought we had we didn't
[00:17.270]And what we have now will will never be that way again
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[00:21.420]So we call upon the author to explain
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[00:31.430]Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets
[00:34.130]Weve shunned them from the greasy grind
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[00:36.560]The poor little things they look so sad and old
[00:39.950]As they mount us from behind
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[00:42.290]I ask them to desist and to refrain
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[00:45.690]And then we call upon the author to explain
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[00:55.470]Well a rosary clutched in his hand
[00:57.300]He died with tubes up his nose
[00:59.350]And a cabal of angels with with finger cymbals
[01:02.640]Chanted his name in code
[01:04.560]We shook our fists at the punishing rain
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[01:07.830]And we called upon the author to explain
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[01:13.880]He said everything is messed up 'round here
[01:15.950]Everything is banal and jejune
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[01:18.200]Theres a planetary conspiracy
[01:19.980]Against the likes of you and me
[01:21.680]In this idiot constituency of the moon
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[01:24.850]Well he knew exactly who to blame
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[01:28.160]And we call upon the author to explain
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[01:34.000]Well prolix prolix
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[01:36.210]Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix
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[02:09.130]Well I I go guruing down the street
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[02:11.900]And young people gather 'round my feet
[02:14.150]And they ask me things but I don't know where to start
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[02:18.030]They ignite the powder trail straight to my fathers heart
[02:22.780]And yeah once again I call upon the author to explain
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[02:31.260]Yeah we call upon the author to explain
[02:33.240]
[02:35.290]Well who is this great burdensome slavering dog thing
[02:38.830]That mediocres my every thought
[02:40.940]
[02:41.650]I feel like a vacuum cleaner a complete sucker
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[02:45.240]Its ****** up and he is a ******
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[02:48.220]But what an enormous and encyclopedic brain
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[02:52.010]I call upon the author to explain
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[03:03.470]Yeah we call upon the author to explain alright yeah
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[03:09.030]Well rampant discrimination
[03:10.940]Mass poverty third world debt
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[03:13.360]Infectious disease global inequality
[03:16.290]And deepening socioeconomic divisions
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[03:19.360]Well it does in your brain
[03:21.500]We call upon the author to explain
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[03:30.710]Oh now hang on my friend doug is tapping on the window
[03:34.510]Hey doug how you been
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[03:37.690]Well he brings me a book on holocaust poetry
[03:40.410]Complete with pictures
[03:41.780]And then he tells me to get ready for the rain
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[03:44.940]And we call upon the author to explain
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[03:51.990]Well you know I say prolix prolix
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[03:56.600]Some a pair of scissors can't fix
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[04:10.730]Bukowski was a jerk berryman was the best
[04:13.740]He wrote like wet paper maché but he went the hemingway
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[04:18.150]Weirdly on wings and with maximum pain
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[04:21.520]We call upon the author to explain
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[04:26.610]Yeah well I call upon the author to explain
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[04:32.040]Yeah well down in my bolt hole I see they've published
[04:34.510]Another volume of unreconstructed rubbish
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[04:38.330]Well the waves the waves were soldiers moving
[04:41.700]Well thank you ya thank you thank you
[04:44.590]And again I call upon the author to explain
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[04:48.690]Yeah I call upon the author to explain
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[04:52.460]I call upon the author to explain
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[04:56.120]Yeah we call upon the author to explain
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[04:59.410]I said prolix prolix
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[05:01.960]There's nothing a pair of scissors can't fix