Saint Huck-Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

[00:00.00] 作词 : Nick Cave [00:01.00] 作曲 : Nick Cave [00:22.74]Born of the river [00:23.97] [00:25.19]Born of its ever changing [00:26.77]Never changing murky water [00:28.96] [00:35.04]Oh riverboat just rolling along [00:37.24]Through the great great greasy city [00:39.25] [00:41.38]Huck standing like a saint upon its deck [00:44.35] [00:45.25]If ya wanna catch a saint [00:46.38] [00:47.06]Then bait ya hook let's take a walk [00:48.95] [00:50.08]O come to me o come to me is what the dirty city [00:53.64] [00:54.25]Say to Huck Huck [00:59.00] [01:17.52]Saint Huck Huck [01:21.06] [01:35.27]Straight in the arms of the city goes Huck [01:37.46] [01:38.00]Down the beckoning streets of op po tunity [01:41.06] [01:42.96]Whistling his favorite river song [01:45.01] [01:45.67]And a bad blind n****r at the piano [01:47.53]Buts a sinister blooo lilt into that sing a long [01:51.25] [01:52.12]Huck senses something's wrong [01:54.69] [01:56.35]Sirens wail in the city [01:59.64] [02:00.42]And lil Ulysses turn to putty [02:03.77] [02:04.60]And ol' man river's got a bone to pick [02:06.98] [02:08.89]And our boy's hardly got a bone to suck [02:12.20] [02:14.52]He go [02:15.06] [02:31.57]Saint Huck Huck [02:34.84] [02:44.54]The mo o o on its huge cycloptic eye [02:52.53] [02:53.39]Watches the city streets contract [02:54.78] [02:55.46]Twist and cripple and crack [02:57.08] [02:59.22]Saint Huck goes on a dog's leg now [03:01.68]Saint Huck goes on a dog's leg now [03:03.69] [03:04.70]You know the story [03:05.47] [03:06.08]Ya wake up one morning and you find you're a thug [03:08.75] [03:10.28]Blowing smoke rings in some dive [03:11.76] [03:12.57]Ya fingers hot and itching ya cracking ya knuckles [03:16.93] [03:18.45]Ya bull neck bristling [03:20.26] [03:21.53]Still Huck he ventures on whistling [03:23.51] [03:25.75]And death reckons huckleberry's time is up [03:28.49] [03:35.54]Saint Huck [03:36.62] [03:48.44]Saint Huck [03:49.43] [03:50.79]Yonder go Huck minus pocket watch an' wallet gone [03:55.68] [03:56.40]Skin shrink wraps his skeleton [03:59.06] [04:00.17]No wonder he gets thinner [04:01.72]What with his cold'n'skinny dinners [04:03.90] [04:06.00]Saint Huck a saint Elvis saint Huck a saint Elvis [04:09.71] [04:13.62]O you recall the song ya used to sing a long [04:16.04]Shifting the river trade on that ol' steamer [04:17.86] [04:18.54]Life is but a dream [04:19.84]But ya traded in the mighty ol' man river [04:22.92]For the dirty ol' man latrine [04:24.63] [04:28.31]The brothel shift [04:29.24] [04:30.69]The hustle 'n' the bustle and the green backs rustle [04:32.94] [04:33.72]And all the sexy cash [04:35.33]And the randy cars [04:37.69]And the two dollar girl [04:40.80]O o o ya outa luck ya outa luck [04:45.14] [04:54.97]Saint Huck Huck [05:00.98] [05:07.00]This is the track of deception [05:08.21] [05:09.29]Leads to the heart of despair [05:11.00] [05:11.78]Huck whistles like he just don't care [05:13.70] [05:16.27]But in the pocket of the jacket is a chamber [05:18.20] [05:19.10]Lead pellets sleeps in there [05:20.45] [05:22.58]Wake up [05:23.58] [05:25.09]Now Huck whistles and he kneels [05:26.69]And he lays down there [05:29.04] [05:30.92]See ya Huck good luck [05:32.83] [05:40.04]A smoke ring hovers above his head [05:41.84] [05:44.11]And the rats and the dogs and the men all come [05:46.44]And put a bullet through his eye [05:49.18] [05:51.35]And the drip and the drip and the drip of the Mississippi crying [05:57.97] [05:58.90]And saint Huck hears his own Mississippi just rolling by him [06:03.99] [06:26.83]Saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck [06:36.04] [06:56.35]Saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck