《Swordfishtrombone - Swordfishtrombones》歌词

[00:00:00] Swordfishtrombone - Tom Waits (汤姆·威兹)

[00:00:16] Written by：Tom Waits

[00:00:33] Well he came home from the war

[00:00:35] With a party in his head

[00:00:37] And modified brougham deville

[00:00:41] And a pair of legs that opened up

[00:00:43] Like butterfly wings

[00:00:45] And a mad dog that wouldn't

[00:00:47] Sit still

[00:00:49] He went and took up with a salvation army

[00:00:52] Band girl

[00:00:53] Played dirty water

[00:00:54] On a swordfishtrombone

[00:00:57] He went to sleep at the bottom of

[00:00:59] Ten killer lake

[00:01:01] And he said gee but it's

[00:01:03] Great to be home

[00:01:05] Well he came home from the war

[00:01:07] With a party in his head

[00:01:10] And an idea for a fireworks display

[00:01:14] And he knew that he'd be ready with

[00:01:16] A stainless steel machete

[00:01:18] And a half a pint of ballentine's

[00:01:20] Each day

[00:01:22] And he holed up in a room above a hardware store

[00:01:26] Cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears

[00:01:30] And he put a spell on some

[00:01:32] Poor little crutch field girl

[00:01:34] And stayed like that for 27 years

[00:01:38] He packed up all his

[00:01:39] Expectations he lit out for California

[00:01:42] With a flyswatter banjo on his knee

[00:01:46] With a lucky tiger in his angel hair

[00:01:49] And Benzedrine for getting there

[00:01:51] Found him in a eucalyptus tree

[00:01:54] Lieutenant got him a canary bird

[00:01:57] And shaken her head with every word

[00:01:59] And Chesterfield moonbeams in a song

[00:02:02] He got 20 years for loving her

[00:02:05] From some Oklahoma governor

[00:02:07] Said everything this dough boy

[00:02:08] Does is wrong

[00:02:10] Now some say he's doing

[00:02:12] The obituary mambo

[00:02:15] And some say he's hanging on the wall

[00:02:18] Perhaps this yarn's the only thing

[00:02:21] That holds this man together

[00:02:23] Some say that he was never here at all

[00:02:27] Some say they saw him down in

[00:02:29] Birmingham sleeping in a

[00:02:32] Boxcar going by

[00:02:35] And if you think that you can tell a bigger tale

[00:02:39] I swear to God you'd have to tell a lie