《Mermaid》歌词

[00:00:00] Mermaid (美人鱼) - Okkervil River

[00:00:00] So I said Men pull her out of the water

[00:00:08] And then lay on hands

[00:00:12] And bind back her flippers and tail

[00:00:17] Until international waters And there we'll feel

[00:00:28] What's human inside of her

[00:00:40] So she's chilly and slick

[00:00:44] On her hips where the scales

[00:00:47] Meet with skin With a sickening

[00:00:51] Flick of her tail circling

[00:00:56] Her gills fill with cold salty water She thrashes

[00:01:03] And twirls her freezing fins fluttering

[00:01:19] But she's pretty I think

[00:01:24] With her hair dark as ink and her belly bone-white

[00:01:31] And her lips of a slight sea-shell pink slightly part

[00:01:38] As she's tonguing the tub's rusty rim

[00:01:43] As the saltwater flows out and in

[00:02:02] All farewells to the land we knew well

[00:02:10] We'd never be touching again

[00:02:17] To the fields where we rambled and ran

[00:02:24] Farewell to our wives and children

[00:02:31] Let's stand on the deck and let's watch

[00:02:38] Them all disappearing

[00:02:57] And the days all float by

[00:03:00] In a daze over waves under sky

[00:03:06] And the weeks slowly leak into years

[00:03:11] The last islands are all left behind as we silently sail

[00:03:20] Until late some dark night a wild wind starts to wail

[00:03:27] And our map blows away

[00:03:31] And our compasses fail

[00:03:35] And it's out on the lost boiling black water

[00:03:41] Where I see her float out

[00:03:45] And she's so thin and so pale I see her rise up

[00:03:52] And she's so fast and so fair My hands meet

[00:03:57] And they press to a point in the air

[00:04:03] But my mouth fills with more panic than prayer

[00:04:09] And my skull fills with more color than care

[00:04:17] And my heart fills with love with too much love to bear

[00:04:23] And I know that I'll stay and that she'll always be there

[00:04:30] My hands sunk in cold sand

[00:04:33] Sea-w**d strung through her hair