《What’s The Matter Here》歌词

[00:00:00] What's The Matter Here - 10,000 Maniacs

[00:00:22] That young boy without a name

[00:00:24] Anywhere I'd know his face.

[00:00:27] In this city the kid's my favorite.

[00:00:31] I've seen him. I see him every day.

[00:00:41] Seen him run outside looking for a place

[00:00:45] To hide from his father,

[00:00:49] The kid half naked and i said to myself "O,

[00:00:55] What's the matter here?"

[00:01:00] I'm tired of the excuses everybody uses,

[00:01:06] He's their kid I stay out of it,

[00:01:11] But who gave you the right to do this?

[00:01:19] We live on Morgan Street;

[00:01:21] Just ten feet between and his mother, I never see her,

[00:01:29] But her screams and cussing, I hear them every day.

[00:01:39] Threats like: "If you don't

[00:01:41] Mind I will beat on your behind,"

[00:01:44] "Slap you, slap you silly."

[00:01:48] Made me say, "O, what's the matter here?"

[00:01:57] I'm tired of the excuses everybody uses,

[00:02:03] He's your kid, do as you see fit,

[00:02:08] But get this through that I don't approve

[00:02:13] Of what you did to you own flesh and blood.

[00:02:34] I'm tired of the excuses everybody uses,

[00:02:40] He's your kid, do as you see fit,

[00:02:45] But get this through that I don't approve

[00:02:49] Of what you did to you own flesh and blood.

[00:03:02] "If you don't sit on this chair straight

[00:03:08] I'll take this belt from around my waist

[00:03:12] And i don't you think that I won't use it!"

[00:03:18] Answer me and take your time,

[00:03:20] What could be the awful crime he could do

[00:03:23] At such young an age?

[00:03:27] If I'm the only witness to your madness

[00:03:30] Offer me some words to balance out

[00:03:33] What I see and what I hear.

[00:03:36] Oh these cold and lowly things that you do

[00:03:42] I suppose you do because he belongs to you

[00:03:47] And instead of love and the feel of warmth

[00:03:50] You've given him these cuts and sores

[00:03:52] Don't heal with time or with age.

[00:03:59] And I want to say

[00:04:03] And I want to say "What's the Matter here?"

[00:04:13] But I don't dare say.

[00:04:18] "What's the Matter here?"

[00:04:23] But I don't dare say.