Last Great American Whale-Lou Reed

[00:00.000] 作词 : Lou Reed [00:00.520] 作曲 : Lou Reed [00:01.40]They say he didn't have an enemy [00:04.03]His was a greatness to behold [00:09.63]He was the last surviving progeny [00:11.74]The last one on this side of the world [00:17.13]He measured a half mile from tip to tail [00:20.10]Silver and black with powerful fins [00:26.45]They say he could split a mountain in two [00:28.58]That's how we got the grand canyon [00:33.63][02:28.54]Last great american whale [00:50.64]Some say they saw him at the great lakes [00:53.31]Some say they saw him off of florida [00:57.72]My mother said she saw him in chinatown [01:01.84]But you can't always trust your mother [01:06.43]Off the carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day [01:10.14]The lighthouse glows ghostly there at night [01:14.89]The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son [01:18.78]And he'd been on death row since 1958 [01:23.00]The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig [01:25.58]Spit on indians and lots worse [01:31.72]The old chief buried a hatchet in his head [01:34.41]Life compared to death for him seemed worse [01:39.43]The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing [01:43.60]And tried to conjure up a storm or rain [01:47.51]The harbor parted, the great whale sprang full up [01:52.29]And caused a hugh tidal wave [01:55.83]The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief [01:59.83]The tribe let out a roar [02:03.98]The whites were drowned, the browns and reds set free [02:07.53]But sadly one thing more [02:12.20]Some local yokel member of the nra [02:16.25]Kept a bazooka in his living room [02:20.13]And thinking he had the chief in his sight [02:23.95]Blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon [02:44.86]Well americans don't care for much of anything [02:48.06]Land and water the least [02:53.22]And animal life is low on the totem pole [02:57.30]With human life not worth more than infected yeast [03:01.76]Americans don't care too much for beauty [03:04.80]They'll **** in a river, dump battery acid in a stream [03:09.11]They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach [03:12.79]And complain if they can't swim [03:18.18]They say things are done for the majority [03:20.99]Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear [03:25.91]It's like what my painter friend donald said to me [03:28.89]'stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done'