《Thousands Are Sailing (Live At The Brixton Academy 2001)》歌词

[00:00:00] Thousands Are Sailing (Live At The Brixton Academy 2001) - The Pogues

[00:00:19] The island it is silent now

[00:00:22] But the ghosts still haunt the waves

[00:00:26] And the torch lights up a famished man

[00:00:30] Who fortune could not save

[00:00:34] Did you work upon the railroad

[00:00:38] Did you rid the streets of crime

[00:00:42] Were your dollars from the white house

[00:00:45] Were they from the five and dime

[00:00:49] Did the old songs taunt or cheer you

[00:00:53] And did they still make you cry

[00:00:56] Did you count the months and years

[00:00:59] Or did your teardrops quickly dry

[00:01:04] Ah no says he 'twas not to be

[00:01:07] On a coffin ship I came here

[00:01:10] And I never even got so far

[00:01:14] That they could change my name

[00:01:18] Thousands are sailing

[00:01:21] Across the western ocean

[00:01:25] To a land of opportunity

[00:01:28] That some of them will never see

[00:01:32] Fortune prevailing

[00:01:35] Across the western ocean

[00:01:39] Their bellies full

[00:01:40] Spirits Their free

[00:01:42] They'll break the chains of poverty

[00:01:46] And they'll dance

[00:01:56] In Manhattan's desert twilight

[00:02:00] In the death of afternoon

[00:02:03] We stepped hand in hand on Broadway

[00:02:07] Like the first man on the moon

[00:02:11] And "The Blackbird" broke the silence

[00:02:14] As you whistled it so sweet

[00:02:18] And in Brendan Behan's footsteps

[00:02:21] I danced up and down the street

[00:02:25] Then we said goodnight to Broadway

[00:02:29] Giving it our best regards

[00:02:32] Tipped our hats to Mister Cohen

[00:02:36] Dear old Times Square's favorite bard

[00:02:39] Then we raised a glass to JFK

[00:02:43] And a dozen more besides

[00:02:46] When I got back to my empty room

[00:02:50] I suppose I must have cried

[00:02:54] Thousands are sailing

[00:02:57] Again across the ocean

[00:03:01] Where the hand of opportunity

[00:03:04] Draws tickets in a lottery

[00:03:08] Postcards we're mailing

[00:03:12] Of sky-blue skies and oceans

[00:03:15] From rooms the daylight never sees

[00:03:18] Where lights don't glow on Christmas trees

[00:03:21] We But dance to the music

[00:03:24] And we dance

[00:03:57] Thousands are sailing

[00:04:00] Across the western ocean

[00:04:03] Where the hand of opportunity

[00:04:07] Draws tickets in a lottery

[00:04:11] Where e'er we go we celebrate

[00:04:14] The land that makes us refugees

[00:04:17] From fear of Priests with empty plates

[00:04:21] From guilt and weeping effigies

[00:04:24] And we dance