A Voice In The Dark-Elvis Costello

[00:00.000] 作词 : Costello [00:01.000] 作曲 : Costello [00:15.02]You can read right through a book of matches [00:17.38] [00:18.50]But that won't make you smart [00:20.54] [00:21.87]You can laugh in the face of watches [00:24.34] [00:25.62]But time will only break your heart [00:27.55] [00:28.79]Kings reign beneath umbrellas [00:31.18] [00:32.25]Hide pennies down in cellars [00:34.69] [00:35.97]And money pours down and yet [00:37.97] [00:38.95]Not everyone gets soaking wet [00:41.37] [00:42.53]When bores and bullies conspire [00:44.96] [00:46.05]To stamp out your spark [00:48.70] [00:49.71]Listen for a voice in the dark [00:52.87] [00:55.53]Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon [00:58.44] [00:59.09]And a wolf begins to howl in tune [01:01.95] [01:02.61]I announced for all mankind a boon [01:05.29] [01:06.07]Stand aside you big baboon [01:07.84] [01:08.64]Now I'm the a prize invention girl [01:10.27]You're the image of yourself [01:12.25] [01:12.89]Forget your cares [01:14.23]Your disapproving stares [01:15.69] [01:16.70]I'm not here to try to jump your borders [01:19.21] [01:20.19]Just ask your nieces and daughters [01:23.36]I'm flat as sole I'm happy as a clam [01:26.11] [01:26.78]But you don't know the kind of man I am [01:29.67] [01:30.38]Little fish swimming in a jealous shoal [01:33.04] [01:33.64]Now my net is overflowing [01:35.51] [01:36.16]And I suddenly seem to be all seeing and all knowing [01:39.90] [01:40.47]I've got something right there [01:41.90]You might want to hear [01:43.30] [01:44.35]I have no fear lend a hand lend an ear [01:46.79] [01:47.86]If your rent money is in arrears [01:49.92] [01:51.58]We'll be striking up a symphony bandstand [01:54.22] [01:55.30]Long of hair and loose of tooth [01:57.32] [01:58.27]There'll be pirouettes and startling handstands [02:01.16] [02:02.46]And who but acrobats know how to tell the truth [02:05.19] [02:05.89]When all is said that then redundant [02:07.96] [02:08.90]They gallivant in peg leg pants [02:11.05] [02:12.00]I'll be your servant [02:13.79]You'll be my pal [02:14.68] [02:15.90]And I'll be faithful you know I shall [02:18.19] [02:19.41]There's no fool like an old fool [02:22.23] [02:23.06]Who blames it all upon his youth [02:25.99] [02:26.70]When times are tough and you find you're down [02:29.53] [02:30.10]Without a star to wish upon [02:32.13] [02:33.26]Listen for a voice in the dark [02:36.93] [02:40.30]I was striking through a box of matches [02:42.58] [02:43.66]Hoping that one would spark [02:45.97] [02:47.19]I heard somebody calling to me [02:49.68] [02:50.88]A voice in the dark [02:52.99] [02:54.41]The sound both wild and gentle [02:56.61] [02:57.58]Daring and confidential [02:59.76] [03:01.42]I thought there was music playing [03:03.48] [03:04.41]But it was all and only talk [03:06.68] [03:07.92]When liars and bullies conspire to stamp out your spark [03:14.38] [03:15.11]Fill up that empty space in your heart [03:17.80] [03:18.41]Listen up when the herald says hark [03:21.23] [03:22.43]Believe in a voice in the dark [03:26.83]