Dust-Elvis Costello

[ti:Dust] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:Cruel Smile] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dust - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛) [00:12.89]If only dust could talk [00:14.41]What would we hear it say [00:16.27]Before it's brushed aside [00:18.15]Just as it's swept away [00:19.92]It's just the evidence [00:21.71]It's of no consequence [00:23.56]It's only flesh and bone [00:25.60]Why don't you leave it alone [00:27.13]If only dust could talk [00:28.95]Caught in a falling beam [00:30.80]If only dust could cry [00:32.71]If only dust could scream [00:35.21] [00:36.53]For it's the single witness that might testify [00:40.60] [00:42.61]Could I spit out the truth [00:43.75]Or would you rather just swallow a lie [00:47.24] [00:55.06]But dust is always caught behind a coat of pain [00:58.42]Beneath the marble fingernails of kings and saints [01:02.05]And in the theatre curtain where they hang a drape [01:05.70]Or in the ticket pocket where your hands escape [01:09.37]Before they start to wander [01:11.35]Or they start to shrink [01:13.84] [01:15.37]You rub your eye a little and appear to blink [01:19.49] [01:20.83]And then she caught you staring [01:22.50]She knows what you're thinking [01:24.69] [01:26.83]What got into you is not a ghost as such [01:29.70]It was just dust [01:32.03] [02:14.97]Here comes the juggernaut [02:16.68]Here come The Poisoners [02:18.39]They choke the life and land [02:20.03]And rob the joy from us [02:21.92]Why do they taste of sugar [02:23.99]Oh when they're made of money [02:25.83]Here come the Lamb of God [02:27.60]And the butcher's boy Sonny [02:30.22] [03:42.68]Why did they dam the land [03:44.22]Why did they flood the plain [03:46.17]Did they erase the stain [03:47.83]And wipe away the name [03:49.62]You kept your mouth well shut [03:51.63]Appeared to turn your coat [03:53.37]Now there's a name for you but it's stuck in my throat [03:57.40] [05:07.85]Well I believe each us [05:09.99]Became a small dust [05:12.73] [05:15.95]Well I believe each us [05:17.71]Became a small dust