[00:00.000] 作词 : Nick Cave
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Nick Cave
[00:22.74]Born of the river
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[00:25.19]Born of its ever changing
[00:26.77]Never changing murky water
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[00:35.04]Oh riverboat just rolling along
[00:37.24]Through the great great greasy city
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[00:41.38]Huck standing like a saint upon its deck
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[00:45.25]If ya wanna catch a saint
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[00:47.06]Then bait ya hook let's take a walk
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[00:50.08]O come to me o come to me is what the dirty city
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[00:54.25]Say to Huck Huck
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[01:17.52]Saint Huck Huck
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[01:35.27]Straight in the arms of the city goes Huck
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[01:38.00]Down the beckoning streets of op po tunity
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[01:42.96]Whistling his favorite river song
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[01:45.67]And a bad blind n****r at the piano
[01:47.53]Buts a sinister blooo lilt into that sing a long
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[01:52.12]Huck senses something's wrong
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[01:56.35]Sirens wail in the city
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[02:00.42]And lil Ulysses turn to putty
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[02:04.60]And ol' man river's got a bone to pick
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[02:08.89]And our boy's hardly got a bone to suck
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[02:14.52]He go
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[02:31.57]Saint Huck Huck
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[02:44.54]The mo o o on its huge cycloptic eye
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[02:53.39]Watches the city streets contract
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[02:55.46]Twist and cripple and crack
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[02:59.22]Saint Huck goes on a dog's leg now
[03:01.68]Saint Huck goes on a dog's leg now
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[03:04.70]You know the story
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[03:06.08]Ya wake up one morning and you find you're a thug
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[03:10.28]Blowing smoke rings in some dive
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[03:12.57]Ya fingers hot and itching ya cracking ya knuckles
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[03:18.45]Ya bull neck bristling
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[03:21.53]Still Huck he ventures on whistling
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[03:25.75]And death reckons huckleberry's time is up
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[03:35.54]Saint Huck
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[03:48.44]Saint Huck
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[03:50.79]Yonder go Huck minus pocket watch an' wallet gone
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[03:56.40]Skin shrink wraps his skeleton
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[04:00.17]No wonder he gets thinner
[04:01.72]What with his cold'n'skinny dinners
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[04:06.00]Saint Huck a saint Elvis saint Huck a saint Elvis
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[04:13.62]O you recall the song ya used to sing a long
[04:16.04]Shifting the river trade on that ol' steamer
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[04:18.54]Life is but a dream
[04:19.84]But ya traded in the mighty ol' man river
[04:22.92]For the dirty ol' man latrine
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[04:28.31]The brothel shift
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[04:30.69]The hustle 'n' the bustle and the green backs rustle
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[04:33.72]And all the sexy cash
[04:35.33]And the randy cars
[04:37.69]And the two dollar girl
[04:40.80]O o o ya outa luck ya outa luck
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[04:54.97]Saint Huck Huck
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[05:07.00]This is the track of deception
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[05:09.29]Leads to the heart of despair
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[05:11.78]Huck whistles like he just don't care
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[05:16.27]But in the pocket of the jacket is a chamber
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[05:19.10]Lead pellets sleeps in there
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[05:22.58]Wake up
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[05:25.09]Now Huck whistles and he kneels
[05:26.69]And he lays down there
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[05:30.92]See ya Huck good luck
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[05:40.04]A smoke ring hovers above his head
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[05:44.11]And the rats and the dogs and the men all come
[05:46.44]And put a bullet through his eye
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[05:51.35]And the drip and the drip and the drip of the Mississippi crying
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[05:58.90]And saint Huck hears his own Mississippi just rolling by him
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[06:26.83]Saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck
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[06:56.35]Saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck saint Huck