Nick Cave、The Bad Seeds《Song of Joy》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:12.08]Have mercy on me  sir [00:13.71]Allow me to impose on you [00:15.03]I have no place to stay [00:16.10]And my bones are cold right through [00:23.41]I will tell you a story [00:25.86]Of a man and his family [00:28.11]And I swear that it is true [00:33.92]Ten years ago I met a girl named Joy [00:36.99]She was a sweet and happy thing [00:39.86]Her eyes were bright blue jewels [00:42.36]And we were married in the spring [00:45.49]I had no idea what happiness and little love could bring [00:51.36]Or what life had in store [00:58.17]But all things move toward their end [01:01.24]All things move toward their their end [01:04.11]On that you can be sure [01:34.16]Then one morning I awoke to find her weeping [01:37.84]And for many days to follow [01:41.72]She grew so sad and lonely [01:44.03]Became Joy in name only [01:47.41]Within her breast there launched an unnamed sorrow [01:51.90]And a dark and grim force set sail [01:59.16]Farewell happy fields [02:00.78]Where joy forever dwells [02:04.40]* Hail horrors hail * [02:09.84]Was it an act of contrition or some awful premonition [02:15.72]As if she saw into the heart of her final blood-soaked night [02:21.71]Those lunatic eyes  that hungry kitchen knife [02:27.33]Ah  I see sir  that I have your attention [02:32.52]Well  could it be [02:37.58]How often I've asked that question [02:41.64]Well  then in quick succession [02:42.90]We had babies  one  two  three [02:48.19]We called them Hilda  Hattie and Holly [02:51.78]They were their mother's children [02:52.72]Their eyes were bright blue jewels [02:57.44]And they were quiet as a mouse [03:00.02]There was no laughter in the house [03:03.05]No  not from Hilda  Hattie or Holly [03:05.81]"No wonder"  people said  "poor mother Joy's so melancholy" [03:11.68]Well  one night there came a visitor to our little home [03:19.92]I was visiting a sick friend [03:22.36]I was a doctor then [03:25.42]Joy and the girls were on their own [03:57.08]Joy had been bound with electrical tape [03:58.08]In her mouth a gag [04:00.27]She'd been stabbed repeatedly [04:02.64]And stuffed into a sleeping bag [04:05.98]In their very cots my girls were robbed of their lives [04:10.42]Method of murder much the same as my wife's [04:14.68]Method of murder much the same as my wife's [04:22.56]It was midnight when I arrived home [04:25.74]Said to the police on the telephone [04:28.18]Someone's taken four innocent lives [04:33.62]They never caught the man [04:36.62]He's still on the loose [04:39.56]It seems he has done many many more [04:44.50]Quotes John Milton on the walls in the victim's blood [04:48.43]The police are investigating at tremendous cost [04:52.62]In my house he wrote "his red right hand" [04:57.12]That  I'm told is from Paradise Lost [05:03.87]The wind round here gets wicked cold [05:07.31]But my story is nearly told [05:09.75]I fear the morning will bring quite a frost [05:15.30]And so I've left my home [05:18.18]I drift from land to land [05:19.80]I am upon your step and you are a family man [05:25.49]Outside the vultures wheel [05:27.93]The wolves howl  the serpents hiss [05:31.30]And to extend this small favour  friend [05:34.49]Would be the sum of earthly bliss [05:37.18]Do you reckon me a friend [05:42.46]The sun to me is dark [05:45.33]And silent as the moon [05:47.77]Do you  sir  have a room [05:50.21]Are you beckoning me in