Viceroy's Row-Elvis Costello/The Roots

[ti:Viceroy's Row (feat. The Roots] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:Wise Up Ghost (Deluxe) [feat. ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Viceroy's Row - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)/The Roots [00:13.48]Now there's a crank in every crowd [00:16.37]Sprinkling gunpowder [00:17.37] [00:19.06]Seems that everything is about to blow [00:23.57] [00:24.09]They lit the burning paper [00:27.22]With a waxen taper [00:29.47]Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row [00:31.86] [00:32.92]And they're gathering flowers [00:34.25] [00:36.19]In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go [00:41.46]Watching the pipeline as it overflowed [00:50.30] [00:50.99]Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row [00:55.70] [01:01.03]He made a fortune out of barbed wire [01:04.35]In the last days of the Empire [01:07.37]Built a cast-iron curtain [01:09.44]Just to keep control [01:11.50] [01:12.20]He was a tycoon then a cheapskate [01:14.88]Went out looking for a keepsake [01:17.46]To tuck into his suitcase on Viceroy's Row [01:21.48] [01:24.62]And they're gathering flowers [01:26.00] [01:26.81]In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go [01:32.76] [01:34.09]Watching the pipeline as it overflowed [01:36.79]Sitting pretty here on Viceroy's Row [01:41.92] [01:42.44]He had a satchel full of cash [01:52.84]And dishes full of ashes [01:54.98] [01:57.87]He went from boom to bust [01:59.92] [02:01.12]In the blinking of a lash [02:03.52] [02:04.45]Heard the rat-a-tat of the late patrol [02:09.35]Shooting out the lights up on Viceroy's Row [02:11.90] [02:12.48]And they're gathering flowers [02:14.29] [02:14.98]In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go [02:20.81] [02:22.08]They're coming for him slowly [02:24.59]Now the war is over [02:27.15]Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row [02:31.67] [02:38.88]The woman in a blindfold [02:40.83]She doesn't want her hand held [02:42.72] [02:43.46]Walking through a minefield [02:46.04]Saying "How does this feel" [02:48.74]Stepping on the quicksand [02:51.63]Going down slow [02:53.37] [02:54.00]Hiding up here on Viceroy's Row [02:57.07]Nothing satisfies [03:00.59]The ruins of his blue eyes [03:04.79]Like blood stains on a diamond mine [03:09.44] [03:10.50]And deep within you felt [03:12.70]Not one measure of his guilt [03:15.52]Staring in the dark up on Viceroy's Row [03:19.98] [03:21.99]Yet her penitent lover [03:23.54] [03:24.68]Took a ribbon of rubber [03:26.44] [03:26.99]Tied her to the bed made of silken thread [03:31.40]But without an ounce of mercy [03:34.15]They denounced him with a curse [03:36.79]Hammering on the door upon Viceroy's Row [03:41.55] [03:47.58]Now his little concubine in her cemetery drag [03:50.83]Her face all smeared with charcoal [03:53.34]Is leaving all her cares so [03:56.10]Take 500 acres and see what you can sow [03:59.61]We came to overthrow those on Viceroy's Row [04:06.13]They're gathering flowers [04:08.03] [04:10.47]In the crack of hours where all of the nightmares go [04:14.79] [04:15.48]Watching the pipeline as it overflowed [04:23.95] [04:25.02]Sitting up here on Viceroy's Row