Last Great American Whale-Lou Reed

[ti:Last Great American Whale (LP Version)] [ar:Lou Reed] [al:New York] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Last Great American Whale (最后的美国大鲸鱼) (LP版) - Lou Reed (娄.里德) [00:01.08]They say he didn't have an enemy [00:03.13] [00:03.87]His was a greatness to behold [00:05.52] [00:08.68]He was the last surviving progeny [00:10.82] [00:11.58]The last one on this side of the world [00:13.42] [00:17.12]He measured a half mile from tip to tail [00:19.14] [00:19.69]Silver and black with powerful fins [00:22.81] [00:26.37]They say he could split a mountain in two [00:28.34]That's how we got the Grand Canyon [00:29.92] [00:33.53]Last great American whale [00:35.03] [00:37.66]Last great American whale [00:39.20] [00:41.66]Last great American whale [00:43.60] [00:45.72]Last great American whale [00:47.25] [00:50.34]Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes [00:52.88]Some say they saw him off of Florida [00:54.94] [00:57.45]My mother said she saw him in Chinatown [00:59.48] [01:01.61]But you can't always trust your mother [01:03.45] [01:06.35]Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day [01:09.05] [01:09.68]The lighthouse glows ghostly there at night [01:12.41] [01:14.71]The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son [01:17.67] [01:18.66]And he'd been on death row since 1958 [01:20.86] [01:22.89]The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig [01:24.77] [01:25.36]Spit on Indians and lots worse [01:27.16] [01:31.63]The old chief buried a hatchet in his head [01:34.28]Life compared to death for him seemed worse [01:36.54] [01:39.26]The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing [01:41.97] [01:43.40]And tried to conjure up a storm or rain [01:45.81] [01:47.43]The harbor parted the great whale sprang full up [01:50.59] [01:52.12]And caused a hugh tidal wave [01:54.07] [01:55.53]The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief [01:57.66] [01:59.44]The tribe let out a roar [02:01.09] [02:03.77]The whites were drowned the browns and reds set free [02:07.38]But sadly one thing more [02:09.04] [02:11.96]Some local yokel member of the NRA [02:13.96] [02:16.10]Kept a bazooka in his living room [02:18.01] [02:19.76]And thinking he had the chief in his sight [02:21.88] [02:23.31]Blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon [02:25.69] [02:28.44]Last great American whale [02:30.91] [02:32.48]Last great American whale [02:34.55] [02:36.34]Last great American whale [02:38.41] [02:40.67]Last great American whale [02:42.44] [02:44.76]Well Americans don't care for much of anything [02:46.92] [02:47.74]Land and water the least [02:49.09] [02:53.09]And animal life is low on the totem pole [02:55.19] [02:56.94]With human life not worth more than infected yeast [03:00.07] [03:01.35]Americans don't care too much for beauty [03:03.22] [03:04.36]They'll sh*t in a river dump battery acid in a stream [03:07.61] [03:08.90]They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach [03:11.11] [03:12.60]And complain if they can't swim [03:14.37] [03:17.63]They say things are done for the majority [03:19.68] [03:20.60]Don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear [03:23.75] [03:25.51]It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me [03:28.52]"Stick a fork in their a** and turn them over they're done"