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American Without Tears

Elvis Costello1986年2月1日

American Without Tears 歌詞

American Without Tears - Elvis Costello (埃爾維斯 科斯特洛)

Written by:Declan MacManus

Outside in New Orleans

The heat was almost frightening

But my hotel room as usual

Was freezing and unkind

 

On tv they prosecute

Anyone who's exciting

 

So I put on my overcoat

 

And went down to find

 

In Revlon and Crimpelene

They captured my heart

 

To the strain of a piano

 

And a cocktail murderess

 

She was singing that it's too late

 

I agreed with that part

 

For two English girls

Who

Changed their address

 

Oh it seems we've been crying

For years and

For years

 

Now I don't speak any English

Just American without tears

Just American without tears

 

One had been a beauty queen

 

And the other was her friend

 

They had known rogues and rascals

And showbiz impresarios

While the boys were licking hitler

They had something to defend

 

From men armed with chewing gum

 

And fine nylon hose

 

By a bicycle factory

As they sounded the siren

 

And returned into the dance hall

 

She knew he was the one

 

Though he wasn't tall or handsome

She laughed when he told her

 

I'm the sheriff of Nottingham

 

And this is little John

Oh it seems we've been crying

 

For years and

For years

 

Now I don't speak any English

 

Just American without tears

Just American without tears

 

At a dock in Southampton

Full of tearful goodbyes

 

Newsreel commentators said

Cheerio g I brides

 

Soon they'll be finding

The cold facts

And lies

 

New words for suspenders

And young girls backsides

 

Now I'm in America

 

And running from you

Like my grandfather before me walked

 

Streets of New York

 

And I think of all the women I

Pretend mean more than you

 

When I open my mouth and I

Can't seem to talk

Oh it seems we've been crying

 

For years and

For years

 

Now I don't speak any English

Just American without tears

Just American without tears

Oh it seems we've been crying

 

For years and

For years

 

Now I don't speak any English

Just American without tears

 

Just American without tears