Last Great American Whale-Lou Reed

[ti:Last Great American Whale] [ar:Lou Reed] [al:The Sire Years: The Solo Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Last Great American Whale (最后的美国大鲸鱼) - Lou Reed (娄.里德) [00:01.65]They say he didn't have an enemy [00:04.15]His was a greatness to behold [00:09.13]He was the last surviving progeny [00:11.80]The last one on this side of the world [00:17.30]He measured a half mile from tip to tail [00:19.92]Silver and black with powerful fins [00:26.39]They say he could split a mountain in two [00:28.38]That's how we got the Grand Canyon [00:33.55]Last great American whale [00:34.43] [00:37.64]Last great American whale [00:38.40] [00:41.70]Last great American whale [00:45.85]Last great American whale [00:50.47]Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes [00:52.97]Some say they saw him off of Florida [00:57.54]My mother said she saw him in Chinatown [01:01.74]But you can't always trust your mother [01:02.87] [01:06.42]Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day [01:10.17]The lighthouse glows ghostly there at night [01:14.83]The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son [01:18.70]And he'd been on death row since 1958 [01:22.90]The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig [01:25.47]Spit on Indians and lots worse [01:31.70]The old chief buried a hatchet in his head [01:34.32]Life compared to death for him seemed worse [01:35.80] [01:39.43]The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing [01:43.53]And tried to conjure up a storm or rain [01:47.47]The harbor parted the great whale sprang full up [01:52.25]And caused a hugh tidal wave [01:55.64]The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief [01:59.65]The tribe let out a roar [02:03.90]The whites were drowned the browns and reds set free [02:07.50]But sadly one thing more [02:11.94]Some local yokel member of the NRA [02:16.10]Kept a bazooka in his living room [02:19.79]And thinking he had the chief in his sight [02:23.43]Blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon [02:28.43]Last great American whale [02:29.10] [02:32.60]Last great American whale [02:36.60]Last great American whale [02:40.75]Last great American whale [02:44.80]Well Americans don't care for much of anything [02:47.94]Land and water the least [02:53.13]And animal life is low on the totem pole [02:57.54]With human life not worth more than infected yeast [03:01.50]Americans don't care too much for beauty [03:04.50]They'll sh*t in a river dump battery acid in a stream [03:09.01]They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach [03:12.69]And complain if they can't swim [03:17.67]They say things are done for the majority [03:20.73]Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear [03:25.58]It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me [03:28.36]"Stick a fork in their a** and turn them over they're done"