[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.15]We Call Upon The Author - Nick Cave & the bad seeds [00:15.64]Oh what we once thought we had we didn't [00:17.87]And what we have now will will never be that way again [00:22.02]So we call upon the author to explain [00:32.03]Our myxomatoid kids spraddle the streets [00:34.73]Weve shunned them from the greasy grind [00:37.16]The poor little things they look so sad and old [00:40.55]As they mount us from behind [00:42.89]I ask them to desist and to refrain [00:46.29]And then we call upon the author to explain [00:56.07]Well a rosary clutched in his hand [00:57.90]He died with tubes up his nose [00:59.95]And a cabal of angels with with finger cymbals [01:03.24]Chanted his name in code [01:05.16]We shook our fists at the punishing rain [01:08.43]And we called upon the author to explain [01:14.48]He said everything is messed up 'round here [01:16.55]Everything is banal and jejune [01:18.80]Theres a planetary conspiracy [01:20.58]Against the likes of you and me [01:22.28]In this idiot constituency of the moon [01:25.45]Well he knew exactly who to blame [01:28.76]And we call upon the author to explain [01:34.60]Well prolix prolix [01:36.81]Nothing a pair of scissors can't fix [02:09.73]Well I I go guruing down the street [02:12.50]And young people gather 'round my feet [02:14.75]And they ask me things but I don't know where to start [02:18.63]They ignite the powder trail straight to my fathers heart [02:23.38]And yeah once again I call upon the author to explain [02:31.86]Yeah we call upon the author to explain [02:35.89]Well who is this great burdensome slavering dog thing [02:39.43]That mediocres my every thought [02:42.25]I feel like a vacuum cleaner a complete sucker [02:45.84]Its f**ked up and he is a f**ker [02:48.82]But what an enormous and encyclopedic brain [02:52.61]I call upon the author to explain [03:04.07]Yeah we call upon the author to explain alright yeah [03:09.63]Well rampant discrimination [03:11.54]Mass poverty third world debt [03:13.96]Infectious disease global inequality [03:16.89]And deepening socioeconomic divisions [03:19.96]Well it does in your brain [03:22.10]We call upon the author to explain [03:31.31]Oh now hang on my friend doug is tapping on the window [03:35.11]Hey doug how you been [03:38.29]Well he brings me a book on holocaust poetry [03:41.01]Complete with pictures [03:42.38]And then he tells me to get ready for the rain [03:45.54]And we call upon the author to explain [03:52.59]Well you know I say prolix prolix [03:57.20]Some a pair of scissors can't fix [04:11.33]Bukowski was a jerk berryman was the best [04:14.34]He wrote like wet paper maché but he went the hemingway [04:18.75]Weirdly on wings and with maximum pain [04:22.12]We call upon the author to explain [04:27.21]Yeah well I call upon the author to explain [04:32.64]Yeah well down in my bolt hole I see they've published [04:35.11]Another volume of unreconstructed rubbish [04:38.93]Well the waves the waves were soldiers moving [04:42.30]Well thank you ya thank you thank you [04:45.19]And again I call upon the author to explain [04:49.29]Yeah I call upon the author to explain [04:53.06]I call upon the author to explain [04:56.72]Yeah we call upon the author to explain [05:00.01]I said prolix prolix [05:02.56]There's nothing a pair of scissors can't fix