Wake Me Up-Elvis Costello/The Roots

[00:11.93]I've got this phosphorescent portrait [00:14.99]Of gentle Jesus meek and mild [00:17.47]I've got this harlot [00:19.40]That I'm stuck [00:19.96]With carrying another man's child [00:22.86]The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out [00:26.62]As we arrived [00:28.62]They'd throw us back across the border [00:31.18]If they knew that we survived [00:33.19]And they were surprised to see us [00:39.94]So they greeted us with palms [00:46.73]They asked for ammunition [00:50.75]Acts of contrition and small alms [00:57.73]Wake me up wake me up [00:58.63]Wake me up wake me up [01:00.35]Wake me up [01:02.73]With a slap or a kiss [01:08.27]Wake me up wake me up [01:09.46]Wake me up wake me up [01:10.85]Wake me up [01:13.48]There must be something better than this [01:19.66]I've got this imaginary radio [01:22.02]And I'm punching up the dial [01:25.18]I've got the A C trained on the T V [01:27.67]So it won't blow up in my eye [01:30.93]And everything [01:32.13]That I thought fanciful or mocked [01:34.55]As too extreme [01:36.64]Must be family entertainment here [01:39.04]In the strange land of my dreams [01:42.36]And I'm practicing [01:43.53]My likeness of St [01:48.77]Francis of Assisi [01:53.65]And if I hold my hand outstretched [01:59.33]A little bird comes to me [02:04.76]And I might recite a small prayer [02:07.81]If I ever said them [02:10.57]I lay down on an iron frame [02:13.90]And found myself in Bedlam [02:16.48]Stepping on the fingers [02:18.94]That were stretching through the bars [02:22.14]Wailing echoes down the corridors [02:28.09]Wake me up wake me up [02:29.26]Wake me up wake me up [02:30.66]Wake me up [02:33.08]With a slap or a kiss [02:38.66]Wake me up wake me up [02:39.81]Wake me up wake me up [02:41.17]Wake me up [02:43.21]There must be something better than this [03:01.72]They've got this scared [03:02.87]And decorated girl strapped to the steel [03:04.63]Trunk of a Mustang [03:07.14]They drove her down a cypress grove [03:09.45]Where traitors hang and stars still spangle [03:12.38]They dangled flags [03:13.74]And other rags along a colored thread of twine [03:17.99]They dragged that bruised and purple heart [03:20.85]Along the road to Palestine [03:24.02]Someone went off muttering [03:29.51]He mentioned thirty pieces [03:35.47]Easter saw a slaughtering [03:40.75]Each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces [03:46.40]My thoughts returned to vengeance [03:52.10]But I put up no resistance [03:57.67]Though I seemed a long way from my home [04:03.34]It really was no distance [04:09.65]Wake me up wake me up [04:10.87]Wake me up wake me up [04:12.37]Wake me up [04:14.63]With a slap or a kiss [04:20.43]Wake me up wake me up [04:21.50]Wake me up wake me up [04:22.79]Wake me up [04:25.46]There must be something better than this [04:43.04]And the player piano [04:44.63]Picks out "Life Goes On" [04:48.44]The Ringtone rang out "Jerusalem" [04:54.15]Into the pit of sadness [04:56.87]Where the wretched plunge [04:59.56]We've buried all the Innocents [05:02.58]We must bury revenge [05:05.54]We must bury revenge [05:08.22]We must bury revenge [05:11.66]Wake me up wake me up [05:12.93]Wake me up wake me up [05:14.36]Wake me up [05:15.99]There must be something [05:19.09]Better than this [05:21.56]There must be something [05:24.60]Better than this [05:27.20]There must be something [05:30.17]Better than this [05:32.82]There must be something [05:36.16]Better than this