All These Strangers-Elvis Costello

[00:00.000] 作词 : Costello Burnett [00:00.505] 作曲 : Costello Burnett [00:01.11]Mistreat me darling and I might just disappear [00:05.29] [00:08.12]Upon freighter running dark out of Algiers [00:12.20] [00:14.85]Put tiny grains in children's tears [00:19.91] [00:21.89]While taking 25% of all the flashbulbs and mementoes [00:28.52] [00:29.03]From the mechanized divisions rolling over your frontiers [00:35.20] [00:35.73]I saw my baby talking to a man today [00:40.42] [00:43.39]Speaking softly in a confidential way [00:47.83] [00:49.59]I saw a shadow pull his glove off [00:55.63] [00:57.51]As a bluebird flew over [01:00.60]Life's is no pleasure [01:01.83] [01:02.90]When you doubt the one you love [01:05.21] [01:08.36]Who are all these strangers [01:12.40] [01:14.98]I never will go back again [01:19.62] [01:21.69]Go back into the past [01:23.50] [01:24.86]The flood is rising fast [01:27.05] [01:30.43]You can break your window and look down [01:33.78] [01:37.01]Into a muddy glass [01:39.27] [01:40.29]For it's mirror or lens to burn [01:44.40] [01:47.70]There was a deal done in Benghazi and Belgrade [01:53.22] [01:55.48]Upon a scimitar or other crooked blade [02:00.16] [02:02.20]Ransacks and loots vacated suits [02:07.54] [02:10.47]And pistol points but never shoots [02:14.06]Army sitting in a locomotive yard without their boots [02:22.28] [02:24.48]Upstairs your man is painting the rain out in the street [02:29.38] [02:31.98]Imagines woman that he's destined still to meet [02:36.73] [02:39.01]He's trying sidetrack one to count on [02:44.91] [02:46.75]Caught somewhere between countess or a courtesan [02:52.38]And it's only love to feign and then it's gone [02:56.67] [02:57.77]Who are all these strangers [03:02.57] [03:06.37]He's a privateer as dusk gets near [03:10.14] [03:11.58]A brigand after dark his victim lined with chalk [03:17.29] [03:20.77]A corsair filled with horsehair to the core [03:24.89] [03:27.99]Dashed on your eyes of adamantine [03:30.36] [03:31.47]You despised his stripling whine [03:34.57] [03:38.63]That little smudger and the mouthpiece that he's with [03:44.06] [03:46.04]Using his clause just like a practised fingersmith [03:51.10] [03:53.58]I dreamed I took his digit prints [03:59.02] [04:01.14]And then I sewed them on a villain's hands [04:04.99] [04:05.86]Watched him ransom and demand [04:08.26] [04:09.47]Until called the flatfoots in [04:13.12] [04:16.30]I never will go back again [04:20.76] [04:22.58]Go back into the past [04:24.49] [04:26.31]The flood is rising fast [04:28.83] [04:32.19]You can break your window and look down [04:35.72] [04:38.95]Into a muddy glass [04:41.15] [04:42.26]For it's a mirror or lens to burn [04:46.08] [04:49.93]Who are all these strangers [04:55.06] [04:59.02]All these strangers [05:04.17] [05:07.24]Sat down on a narrow bed [05:09.71] [05:11.32]Thought about the things she said [05:13.84] [05:14.81]All these strangers [05:20.23] [05:22.97]How I wished the night would never end [05:26.14] [05:27.00]Tried to stop the days ahead [05:29.80]I'd carve her name down in the wood [05:33.20] [05:34.25]Some small remembrance if I could [05:40.47]