[00:00.000] 作曲 : Nick Cave
[00:06.50]Have mercy on me, sir
[00:08.92]Allow me to impose on you
[00:12.51]I have no place to stay
[00:15.53]And my bones are cold right through
[00:22.38]I will tell you a story
[00:25.45]Of a man and his family
[00:27.84]And I swear that it is true
[00:33.52]Ten years ago I met a girl named Joy
[00:36.67]She was a sweet and happy thing
[00:39.76]Her eyes were bright blue jewels
[00:41.82]And we were married in the spring
[00:45.32]I had no idea what happiness and little love could bring
[00:51.20]Or what life had in store
[00:57.83]But all things move toward their end
[01:00.80]All things move toward their their end
[01:03.92]On that you can be sure
[01:08.31]Hit it
[01:09.38]
[01:33.67]Then one morning I awoke to find her weeping
[01:37.44]And for many days to follow
[01:41.47]She grew so sad and lonely
[01:44.34]Became Joy in name only
[01:47.22]Within her breast there launched an unnamed sorrow
[01:51.08]And a dark and grim force set sail
[01:58.94]Farewell happy fields
[02:01.56]Where joy forever dwells
[02:04.07]Hail horrors hail
[02:09.88]Was it an act of contrition or some awful premonition?
[02:15.47]As if she saw into the heart of her final blood-soaked night
[02:21.47]Those lunatic eyes, that hungry kitchen knife
[02:27.15]Ah, I see sir, that I have your attention!
[02:32.47]Well, could it be?
[02:36.79]How often I've asked that question
[02:39.84]Well, then in quick succession
[02:42.17]We had babies, one, two, three
[02:47.81]We called them Hilda, Hattie and Holly
[02:51.13]They were their mother's children
[02:54.18]Their eyes were bright blue jewels
[02:56.70]And they were quiet as a mouse
[02:59.22]There was no laughter in the house
[03:02.16]No, not from Hilda, Hattie or Holly
[03:05.78]"No wonder", people said, "poor mother Joy's so melancholy"
[03:11.39]Well, one night there came a visitor to our little home
[03:19.89]I was visiting a sick friend
[03:22.64]I was a doctor then
[03:24.88]Joy and the girls were on their own, yeah
[03:40.97]Oh yeah
[03:42.88]
[03:54.52]Joy had been bound with electrical tape
[03:57.50]In her mouth a gag
[03:59.98]She'd been stabbed repeatedly
[04:02.27]And stuffed into a sleeping bag
[04:05.78]In their very cots my girls were robbed of their lives
[04:10.35]Method of murder much the same as my wife's
[04:14.41]Yeah, method of murder much the same as my wife's
[04:22.38]It was midnight when I arrived home
[04:25.33]Said to the police on the telephone
[04:28.14]Someone's taken four innocent lives
[04:33.67]They never caught the man
[04:36.49]He's still on the loose
[04:39.51]It seems he has done many many more
[04:44.29]Quotes John Milton on the walls in the victim's blood
[04:48.73]The police are investigating at tremendous cost
[04:52.57]In my house he wrote "his red right hand"
[04:56.87]That, I'm told is from Paradise Lost
[05:03.62]The wind round here gets wicked cold
[05:06.68]But my story is nearly told
[05:09.58]I fear the morning will bring quite a frost
[05:15.00]So I've left my home
[05:17.06]I drift from land to land
[05:19.31]I am upon your step and you are a family man
[05:25.33]Outside the vultures wheel
[05:27.56]The wolves howl, the serpents hiss
[05:30.67]And to extend this small favour, friend
[05:33.97]Would be the sum of earthly bliss
[05:36.95]Do you reckon me a friend?
[05:42.08]The sun to me is dark
[05:45.02]And silent as the moon
[05:47.34]Do you, sir, have a room?
[05:50.20]Are you beckoning me in?
[05:52.65]Hit it!