Wake Me Up

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Elvis Costello and The Roots

альбомы: Wise Up Ghost

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I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild
 I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child
 The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived
 They'd throw us back across the border if they knew that we survived
And they were surprised to see us
 So they greeted us with palms
 They asked for ammunition, acts of contrition and small almsWake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up
With a slap or a kiss
Wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up
There must be something better than this I've got this imaginary radio, and I'm punching up the dial
 I've got the A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won't blow up in my eye
 And everything that I thought fanciful or mocked as too extreme
 Must be family entertainment here in the strange land of my dreams
 And I'm practicing my likeness of St. Francis of Assisi
 And if I hold my hand outstretched
 A little bird comes to me And I might recite a small prayer
 If I ever said them
 I lay down on an iron frame
 And found myself in Bedlam
 Stepping on the fingers that were stretching through the bars
 Wailing echoes down the corridors Wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up
With a slap or a kiss
Wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up
There must be something better than this They've got this scared and decorated girl strapped to the steel trunk of a Mustang
 They drove her down a cypress grove where traitors hang and stars still spangle
 They dangled flags and other rags along a colored thread of twine
 They dragged that bruised and purple heart along the road to Palestine Someone went off muttering, he mentioned thirty pieces
 Easter saw a slaughtering, each wrapped in bloodstained fleecesMy thoughts returned to vengeance but I put up no resistance
 Though I seemed a long way from my home
 It really was no distance Wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up
With a slap or a kiss
Wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up
There must be something better than this And the player piano picks out "Life Goes On"
 The Ringtone rang out "Jerusalem"
 Into the pit of sadness
 Where the wretched plunge
 We've buried all the Innocents
 We must bury revenge Wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up
There must be something better than this
There must be something better than this
There must be something better than this In the name of the Father and the Son
In the name of Gasoline and a Gun
Wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up, wake me up

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