We Call Upon the Author-Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Nick Cave/Warren Ellis [00:01.560] [00:15.040]Oh what we once thought we had we didn't [00:17.270]And what we have now will will never be that way again [00:20.730] [00:21.420]So we call upon the author to explain [00:24.390] [00:31.430]Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets [00:34.130]Weve shunned them from the greasy grind [00:35.890] [00:36.560]The poor little things they look so sad and old [00:39.950]As they mount us from behind [00:41.650] [00:42.290]I ask them to desist and to refrain [00:44.810] [00:45.690]And then we call upon the author to explain [00:48.540] [00:55.470]Well a rosary clutched in his hand [00:57.300]He died with tubes up his nose [00:59.350]And a cabal of angels with with finger cymbals [01:02.640]Chanted his name in code [01:04.560]We shook our fists at the punishing rain [01:07.160] [01:07.830]And we called upon the author to explain [01:10.700] [01:13.880]He said everything is messed up 'round here [01:15.950]Everything is banal and jejune [01:17.680] [01:18.200]Theres a planetary conspiracy [01:19.980]Against the likes of you and me [01:21.680]In this idiot constituency of the moon [01:24.200] [01:24.850]Well he knew exactly who to blame [01:26.670] [01:28.160]And we call upon the author to explain [01:31.270] [01:34.000]Well prolix prolix [01:35.700] [01:36.210]Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix [01:37.870] [02:09.130]Well I I go guruing down the street [02:11.240] [02:11.900]And young people gather 'round my feet [02:14.150]And they ask me things but I don't know where to start [02:17.210] [02:18.030]They ignite the powder trail straight to my fathers heart [02:22.780]And yeah once again I call upon the author to explain [02:28.820] [02:31.260]Yeah we call upon the author to explain [02:33.240] [02:35.290]Well who is this great burdensome slavering dog thing [02:38.830]That mediocres my every thought [02:40.940] [02:41.650]I feel like a vacuum cleaner a complete sucker [02:44.720] [02:45.240]Its ****** up and he is a ****** [02:47.270] [02:48.220]But what an enormous and encyclopedic brain [02:51.420] [02:52.010]I call upon the author to explain [02:54.050] [03:03.470]Yeah we call upon the author to explain alright yeah [03:08.150] [03:09.030]Well rampant discrimination [03:10.940]Mass poverty third world debt [03:12.680] [03:13.360]Infectious disease global inequality [03:16.290]And deepening socioeconomic divisions [03:18.660] [03:19.360]Well it does in your brain [03:21.500]We call upon the author to explain [03:23.610] [03:30.710]Oh now hang on my friend doug is tapping on the window [03:34.510]Hey doug how you been [03:35.670] [03:37.690]Well he brings me a book on holocaust poetry [03:40.410]Complete with pictures [03:41.780]And then he tells me to get ready for the rain [03:44.150] [03:44.940]And we call upon the author to explain [03:48.030] [03:51.990]Well you know I say prolix prolix [03:55.980] [03:56.600]Some a pair of scissors can't fix [03:58.120] [04:10.730]Bukowski was a jerk berryman was the best [04:13.740]He wrote like wet paper maché but he went the hemingway [04:17.460] [04:18.150]Weirdly on wings and with maximum pain [04:20.630] [04:21.520]We call upon the author to explain [04:24.050] [04:26.610]Yeah well I call upon the author to explain [04:28.790] [04:32.040]Yeah well down in my bolt hole I see they've published [04:34.510]Another volume of unreconstructed rubbish [04:37.310] [04:38.330]Well the waves the waves were soldiers moving [04:41.700]Well thank you ya thank you thank you [04:44.590]And again I call upon the author to explain [04:46.960] [04:48.690]Yeah I call upon the author to explain [04:51.330] [04:52.460]I call upon the author to explain [04:54.840] [04:56.120]Yeah we call upon the author to explain [04:58.670] [04:59.410]I said prolix prolix [05:01.320] [05:01.960]There's nothing a pair of scissors can't fix