The River In Reverse-Elvis Costello

[ti:The River In Reverse] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:The River In Reverse] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The River In Reverse - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛) [00:24.10]How long does a promise last [00:27.26]How long can a lie be told [00:31.43]What would I take in exchange for my soul [00:35.20]Would I notice when it was sold [00:38.70]Wake me up wake me up [00:42.53]Wake me up with a slap or a kiss [00:46.53]There must be something better than this [00:50.18]'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse [00:54.81]What do we have to do to send the river in reverse [01:03.98] [01:06.83]Every man a crawling king snake [01:10.57]Every girl a half a heartbreak [01:14.30]Every woman sold into shame [01:18.00]To any son without a name [01:21.94]Are your arms too weak to lift [01:25.54]Another shovel on the graveyard shift [01:29.12]Here comes the flood if you catch my drift [01:32.79]Where the things that they promised are not a gift [01:37.02]If man falls through the mirror of a lake [01:40.80]They fish him out quick and they call him a fake [01:44.36]Give him all the temptations he can take [01:48.56]Tie him up high till his bones break [01:52.77]Wake me up wake me up [01:56.71]Wake me up with a slap or a kiss [02:00.76]There must be something better than this [02:04.37]'Cos I don't see how it can get much worse [02:08.98]What do we have to do to send the river in reverse [02:16.66] [02:21.49]I thought I heard somebody laugh [02:25.50]Look out your window [02:28.93]They're chasing shadows in the dark [02:32.78]They're counting widows [02:36.67]I felt a sliver of glass [02:40.49]Saw a cross in splinters [02:44.36]I felt the truce of spring [02:48.00]Dig me out of the trench of winter [02:51.13]So count your blessings when they ask permission [02:55.08]To govern with money and superstition [02:58.83]They tell you it's all for your own protection [03:02.84]Till you fear your own reflection [03:06.22]But the times are passing from illumination [03:09.93]Like bodies falling from a constellation [03:13.56]An uncivil war divides the nation [03:18.45]So erase the tape on that final ape running down creation [03:30.02]Running down creation [03:33.71]Wake me up wake me up [03:37.59]Wake me up with a slap or a kiss [03:41.63]There must be something better than this [03:48.87]Wake me up wake me up with a slap or a kiss [03:56.95]There must be something better than this