《Southend On Sea》歌词

[00:00:00] Southend On Sea - Mark Eitzel (马克·艾扎)

[00:00:12] This summer the sun was a shotgun pointed down at me

[00:00:16] And I was just another ugly American melting in the heat

[00:00:22] Watching the stagnant ocean breathe painfully

[00:00:27] It only wants to drag you down by your feet

[00:00:32] No one swimming in the water

[00:00:34] No sharks no eels no little life boats

[00:00:37] Just a history lesson and some two bit Victorian ghosts

[00:00:43] Who do a turn at the pirate ship

[00:00:45] Singing it's a small world after all

[00:00:48] Either you laugh at it baby

[00:00:50] Or you hit a brick wall

[00:00:52] You said to me

[00:00:54] You're from California

[00:00:56] And you laugh too easily

[00:01:03] You said to me

[00:01:05] You just let things happen

[00:01:08] That are killing me

[00:01:15] We're like whitefish beached all day on hot parking lots

[00:01:19] Waiting for the summer parade to sadly drift by

[00:01:25] Melancholy floats filled with suicides and drooping paper flowers

[00:01:30] A defeated army and no wind to blow away the smell of surrender

[00:01:35] There was '50s nostalgia and horrifying Flintstone characters

[00:01:41] Living memorials to wasted days and wasted bitter nights

[00:01:45] And everyone on the promenade participates in your silence

[00:01:49] Cause I'm always wrong baby and you're always right

[00:01:55] You said to me

[00:01:56] You're from California

[00:01:59] And you're as dumb as can be

[00:02:05] You said to me

[00:02:07] Are you the scarecrow the tin man

[00:02:10] Or are you Dorothy

[00:02:15] You said to me

[00:02:17] I'm beginning to think that you're

[00:02:21] A part of the enemy

[00:02:26] You said to me

[00:02:28] If I was drowning would you save me

[00:02:30] From Southend-On-Sea

[00:02:33] From Southend-On-Sea

[00:02:58] There was a chamber of horrors

[00:03:00] And it was packed with onlookers

[00:03:03] Wax figured day trippers being tortured

[00:03:05] Worse than their crimes deserved

[00:03:08] And there I was in a stranglehold spinning out

[00:03:11] From your nightmare

[00:03:13] And my life with you was a black cloud hanging in the air

[00:03:17] And you said to me

[00:03:20] You're from California

[00:03:22] And you lie too easily

[00:03:28] You said to me

[00:03:30] Did you really think that this was

[00:03:33] Going to set my heart free

[00:03:39] You said to me

[00:03:40] I'm beginning to think that you're

[00:03:43] A part of the enemy

[00:03:46] Part of the enemy

[00:03:49] You said to me

[00:03:51] If I was drowning would you save me

[00:03:53] From Southend-On-Sea

[00:03:56] From Southend-On-Sea