Drunken Boat

歌词
The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town
A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down
A blade of light upon the spit came sweeping through the roar
With me head inise a barrel and me leg screwed in the floor
Mother pack me bags because I'm off to foreign parts
Don't ask me where I'm going 'cause I'm sure it's off the charts
I'll pin your likeness on the wall right buy my sleeping head
I'll send you cards and letters so you'll know that I'm not dead
By this time in a week I should be far away from home
Trailing fingers through the phospor or asleep in flowers of foam
From Macao to Acapulco from Havana to Seville
We'll see monoliths and bridges and the Christ up on the hill
An aria with the Russians at the piano in the bar
With icefloes through the window we raised glasses to the Czar
We squared off on a dockside with a coupled hundred Finns
And we dallied in the 'dilly and we stoaked ourselves in gin
Now the only deck I'd want to walk
Are the stalks of corn beneath my feet
And the only sea I want to sail
Is the darkned pond in the scented dusk
Where a kid crouced full of sadness
Lets his boat go drifting out
Into the evening sun
We sailed through constellations and were rutted by the storm
I crumpled under cudgel blows and finally came ashore
I spent the next two years or more just staring at the wall
We went to sea to see the world and what d'you think we saw?
If we turned the table upside down and sailed around the bed
Clamped knives between our teeth and tied bandannas round our heads
With the wainscot our horizon and the ceiling as the sky
You'd not expect that anyone would go and ******* die
At nights we passed the bottle round and drank to our lost friends
We lay alone upon our bunks and prayed that this would end
A wall of moving shadows with rows of swinging keys
We dreamed that whole Leviathans lay rotting in the ****s
There's a sound that comes from miles away if you lean your head to hear
A ship's bell rings on board a wreck where the air is still and clear
And up in heaven that means another angel's got his wings
But all below it signifies is a ship's gone in the drink
专辑信息
1.Dirty Old Town
2.Fairytale Of New York
3.Sayonara
4.The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn
5.The Old Main Drag
6.Smell Of Petroleum
7.The Sunnyside Of The Street
8.Turkish Song Of The Damned
9.Sayonara
10.Living in a World Without Her
11.White City
12.Greenland Whale Fisheries
13.Boat Train
14.Sit Down By The Fire
15.The Sunnyside Of The Street
16.Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
17.And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
18.Where That Love's Been Gone
19.The Broad Majestic Shannon
20.Straight To Hell
21.The Sun and the Moon
22.Madrín Rain
23.Night Train To Lorca
24.Worms
25.Six To Go
26.Medley: The Recruiting Sergeant / The Rocky Road To Dublin / Galway Races
27.London You're A Lady
28.The Star Of The County Down
29.I Fought The Law
30.Brand New Cadillac
31.Fiesta
32.Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
33.Bottle Of Smoke
34.Haunting
35.Young Ned Of The Hill
36.Anniversary
37.I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
38.Hell's Ditch
39.Young Ned Of The Hill
40.How Come
41.Rain Street
42.Sitting On Top Of The World
43.Amadie
44.A Pair Of Brown Eyes
45.Cotton Fields
46.Lorca's Novena
47.Metropolis
48.Drunken Boat
49.Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
50.Sally MacLennane
51.Blue Heaven
52.Tuesday Morning
53.Tombstone
54.Dirty Old Town
55.Bright Lights
56.Down All The Days
57.If I Should Fall From Grace With God
58.Oretown
59.Fiesta
60.USA
61.Streams Of Whiskey
62.Rain Street
63.Girl From The Wadi Hammamat
64.Rainbow Man
65.Medley
66.Gartloney Rats
67.Navigator
68.Modern World
69.Poor Paddy
70.The Wake Of The Medusa
71.Pont Mirabeau
72.London Calling
73.Billy's Bones
74.Pachinko
75.Tosspint
76.Dingle Regatta
77.Gartloney Rats
78.Lullaby Of London
79.House Of The Gods
80.My Baby's Gone
81.Wild Cats of Kilkenny
82.The Ghost Of A Smile
83.Cotton Fields