The Downeaster "Alexa"

歌曲 The Downeaster "Alexa"
歌手 Billy Joel
专辑 Storm Front

歌词

[00:10.57] Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
[00:16.13] And I'm cruising through Lond Island Sound
[00:21.51] I have chartered a course to the Vineyard
[00:26.82] But tonight I am Nantucket bound
[00:33.57] We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
[00:39.01] And left this morning from the bell in Gardner's Bay
[00:44.07] Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
[00:49.63] Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone
[00:53.26] So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
[00:59.19] And I go where the ocean is deep
[01:04.51] There are giants out there in the canyons
[01:09.88] And a good captain can't fall asleep
[01:16.57] I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
[01:21.88] I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
[01:26.82] They say these waters aren't what they used to be
[01:32.38] But I've got people back on land who count on me
[01:35.76] So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
[01:41.69] And if you work with the rod and the reel
[01:47.01] Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
[01:52.26] And I still have my hands on the wheel
[02:29.69] Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
[02:35.01] More and more miles from shore every year
[02:40.26] Since they told me I can't sell no stripers
[02:45.76] And there's no luck in swordfishing here
[02:51.94] I was a bayman like my father was before
[02:57.63] Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
[03:02.69] There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
[03:07.94] But there ain't no island left for islanders like me