[00:00.00] 作曲 : Costello Burnett
[00:00.337] 作词 : Costello Burnett
[00:01.11]Mistreat me darling and I might just disappear
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[00:08.12]Upon freighter running dark out of Algiers
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[00:14.85]Put tiny grains in children's tears
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[00:21.89]While taking 25% of all the flashbulbs and mementoes
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[00:29.03]From the mechanized divisions rolling over your frontiers
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[00:35.73]I saw my baby talking to a man today
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[00:43.39]Speaking softly in a confidential way
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[00:49.59]I saw a shadow pull his glove off
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[00:57.51]As a bluebird flew over
[01:00.60]Life's is no pleasure
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[01:02.90]When you doubt the one you love
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[01:08.36]Who are all these strangers
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[01:14.98]I never will go back again
[01:19.62]
[01:21.69]Go back into the past
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[01:24.86]The flood is rising fast
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[01:30.43]You can break your window and look down
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[01:37.01]Into a muddy glass
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[01:40.29]For it's mirror or lens to burn
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[01:47.70]There was a deal done in Benghazi and Belgrade
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[01:55.48]Upon a scimitar or other crooked blade
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[02:02.20]Ransacks and loots vacated suits
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[02:10.47]And pistol points but never shoots
[02:14.06]Army sitting in a locomotive yard without their boots
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[02:24.48]Upstairs your man is painting the rain out in the street
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[02:31.98]Imagines woman that he's destined still to meet
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[02:39.01]He's trying sidetrack one to count on
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[02:46.75]Caught somewhere between countess or a courtesan
[02:52.38]And it's only love to feign and then it's gone
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[02:57.77]Who are all these strangers
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[03:06.37]He's a privateer as dusk gets near
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[03:11.58]A brigand after dark his victim lined with chalk
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[03:20.77]A corsair filled with horsehair to the core
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[03:27.99]Dashed on your eyes of adamantine
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[03:31.47]You despised his stripling whine
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[03:38.63]That little smudger and the mouthpiece that he's with
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[03:46.04]Using his clause just like a practised fingersmith
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[03:53.58]I dreamed I took his digit prints
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[04:01.14]And then I sewed them on a villain's hands
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[04:05.86]Watched him ransom and demand
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[04:09.47]Until called the flatfoots in
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[04:16.30]I never will go back again
[04:20.76]
[04:22.58]Go back into the past
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[04:26.31]The flood is rising fast
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[04:32.19]You can break your window and look down
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[04:38.95]Into a muddy glass
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[04:42.26]For it's a mirror or lens to burn
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[04:49.93]Who are all these strangers
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[04:59.02]All these strangers
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[05:07.24]Sat down on a narrow bed
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[05:11.32]Thought about the things she said
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[05:14.81]All these strangers
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[05:22.97]How I wished the night would never end
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[05:27.00]Tried to stop the days ahead
[05:29.80]I'd carve her name down in the wood
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[05:34.25]Some small remembrance if I could
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