Wake Me Up-Elvis Costello/The Roots

[ti:Wake Me Up (feat. The Roots)] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:Wise Up Ghost (Deluxe) [feat. ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Wake Me Up - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)/The Roots [00:12.21]I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle [00:16.09]Jesus meek and mild [00:17.97]I've got this harlot [00:19.60]That I'm stuck with carrying another man's child [00:22.54] [00:23.30]The solitary star announcing vacancy [00:26.18]Burnt out as we arrived [00:28.20] [00:28.88]They'd throw us back across the border [00:31.84]If they knew that we survived [00:34.34] [00:34.85]And they were surprised to see us [00:37.42] [00:40.24]So they greeted us with palms [00:43.19] [00:45.95]They asked for ammunition [00:48.28]Acts of contrition and small alms [00:50.46] [00:51.78]Wake me up wake me up [01:00.25]Wake me up wake me up wake me up [01:04.70]With a slap or a kiss [01:06.59] [01:08.46]Wake me up wake me up [01:10.04]Wake me up wake me up wake me up [01:12.61] [01:13.36]There must be something better than this [01:19.39] [01:19.94]I've got this imaginary radio [01:23.27]And I'm punching up the dial [01:25.47]I've got the A C trained on the T V [01:27.91]So it won't blow up in my eye [01:30.43] [01:31.05]And everything that I thought fanciful or [01:33.69]Mocked as too extreme [01:36.57]Must be family entertainment here [01:39.34]In the strange land of my dreamsAnd [01:42.47]I'm practising my likeness of St Francis of Assisi [01:48.24]And if I hold my hand outstretched [01:54.58]A little bird comes to me [02:01.97] [02:04.99]And I might recite a small prayer [02:07.56]If I ever said them [02:10.75]I lay down on an iron frame [02:13.45]And found myself in Bedlam [02:16.47]Stepping on the fingers [02:19.03]That were stretching through the bars [02:21.22] [02:22.11]Wailing echoes down the corridors [02:26.75] [02:28.39]Wake me up wake me up [02:29.88]Wake me up wake me up wake me up [02:32.65] [02:33.27]With a slap or a kiss [02:36.54] [02:38.60]Wake me up wake me up [02:40.24]Wake me up wake me up wake me up [02:43.57]There must be something better than this [02:48.39] [03:02.88]They've got this scared and decorated girl strapped to [03:05.82]The steel trunk of a Mustang [03:08.65]They drove her down a cypress grove [03:11.72]Where traitors hang and stars still spangle [03:13.42]They dangled flags and other rags along [03:15.99]A coloured thread of twine [03:18.06]They dragged that bruised and purple heart along [03:20.63]The road to Palestine [03:23.21] [03:24.33]Someone went off muttering [03:26.71]He mentioned thirty pieces [03:32.72] [03:35.71]Easter saw a slaughtering [03:38.15] [03:41.02]Each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces [03:44.15] [03:46.66]My thoughts returned to vengeance [03:49.40] [03:53.08]But I put up no resistance [03:56.07] [03:57.82]Though I seemed a long way from my home [04:01.88] [04:03.63]It really was no distance [04:06.74] [04:10.00]Wake me up wake me up [04:11.38]Wake me up wake me up wake me up [04:13.96] [04:14.82]With a slap or a kiss [04:18.27] [04:20.60]Wake me up wake me up [04:22.22]Wake me up wake me up wake me up [04:24.72] [04:25.60]There must be something better than this [04:30.64] [04:43.25]And the player piano picks out "Life Goes On" [04:49.02]The Ringtone rang out "Jerusalem" [04:53.85] [04:54.40]Into the pit of sadness [04:56.79]Where the wretched plunge [05:00.05]We've buried all the Innocents [05:03.00]We must bury revenge [05:05.20] [05:05.82]Wake me up wake me up [05:13.30]Wake me up wake me upwake me up [05:15.73] [05:17.56]There must be something better than this [05:20.20] [05:21.69]There must be something better than this [05:24.71]There must be something better than this [05:31.43] [05:33.05]In the name of the Father and the Son [05:40.59]In the name of Gasoline and a Gun [05:43.02]Wake me up wake me up [05:45.34]Wake me up wake me up wake me up