《Broken Parakeet Blues》歌词

[00:00:00] Broken Parakeet Blues - The Ike Reilly Assassination

[00:00:20] East of the village

[00:00:22] And west of the trees

[00:00:24] Up on the high ground

[00:00:26] Where the soldiers would stand

[00:00:29] Cooling themselves

[00:00:31] In the sulfurous breeze

[00:00:33] It seemed like something to lose

[00:00:40] The houses were filled

[00:00:42] With flattering hosts

[00:00:44] In tight shirts and compliments

[00:00:46] For soldiers and ghosts

[00:00:49] Up on the high ground

[00:00:51] Blowing their loads

[00:00:53] For the cowgirls left back home

[00:01:00] How can you say there's nothing to lose

[00:01:04] Singing your broken parakeet blues

[00:01:08] On the side of the highway lighting the fuse

[00:01:12] Black like the crows from the cattle car fumes

[00:01:19] Yeah up on the highway

[00:01:21] Near Twentynine Palms

[00:01:23] I saw busloads of soldiers

[00:01:25] Rolling along

[00:01:27] And people like crows

[00:01:29] On the side of the road

[00:01:32] Waving goodbye

[00:01:34] To lovers and sons

[00:01:38] The soldiers were boys

[00:01:40] There were brown ones and fat ones

[00:01:43] White ones and cool ones

[00:01:44] And camouflaged black ones

[00:01:47] Sweet ones and cruel ones

[00:01:49] But I didn't see

[00:01:51] Anybody I thought

[00:01:53] Had money like me

[00:01:57] Some were sleeping some dreaming

[00:02:00] Some quietly weeping

[00:02:01] Out of Twentynine Palms

[00:02:04] The buses kept creeping

[00:02:06] Right through the desert

[00:02:08] And out to the shore

[00:02:10] Twentynine Palms

[00:02:12] Won't see 'em no more

[00:02:17] How can you say there's nothing to lose

[00:02:21] Singing your broken parakeet blues

[00:02:25] On the side of the highway lighting the fuse

[00:02:30] Black like the crows from the cattle car fumes

[00:02:36] How can you just wave farewell to them

[00:02:40] And knowing what you know and where you have been

[00:02:44] On the side of the highway lighting the fuse

[00:02:49] Singing your broken parakeet blues

[00:02:55] How can you say there's nothing to lose

[00:03:49] East of the village

[00:03:51] And west of the trees

[00:03:53] Up on the high ground

[00:03:55] Where the soldiers would stand

[00:03:58] Cooling themselves

[00:03:59] In the sulfurous breeze

[00:04:01] We all crow those parakeet blues