Amused to Death

作词:Roger Waters

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所属专辑:Amused To Death

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歌曲名 Amused To Death 歌手名 Roger Waters

作词:Roger Waters

作曲:Roger Waters

DoctorDoctor what is wrong with me

Thissupermarket life is getting long

Whatis the heart life of a colour TV

What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

Ooh western woman

Ooh western girl

News hound sniffs the air

When Jessica Hahn goes down

He latches on to that symbol

Of detachment

Attractedby the peeling away of feeling

Thecelebrity of the abused shell the belle

Ooh western woman Ooh western girl

Ooh western woman ooh western girl

And the children ofMelrose

Strut their stuff

Is absolute zero cold enough

And out in the valley warm and clean

Thelittle ones sit by their TV screens

No thoughts to think

No tears to cry

All sucked dry

Down to the very last breath

Bartender what is wrong with me

Why am I so out of breath

The captain said excuse me ma'am

This species has amused itself to death

Amuseditself to death

Amused itself to death

We watched the tragedy unfold

We did as we were told

We bought and sold

It was the greatest show on earth

But then it was over

We ohhed and aahed

We drove our racing cars

We ate our last few jars of caviar

And somewhere out there in the stars

A keen-eyed look-out

Spied a flickering light

Our last hurrah

And when they found our shadows

Grouped around the TV sets

They ran down every lead

They repeated every test

They checked out all the data on their lists

And then the alien anthropologists

Admitted they were still perplexed

But on eliminating every other reason

For our sad demise

They logged the only explanation left

This species has amused itself to death

Notears to cry no feelings left

This species has amuseditself to death

Amused itself to death amused itself to death

Years later I saw Bill Hubbard's name on the memorial to the missing

At And Iwhen I saw his name I was absolutely transfixed it

Was as though he was now a human being instead of some sort of

Nightmarish memory of how I had to leave him all those years ago

And I felt relieved and ever since then I've felt happier about it

Becausealways before whenever I thought of him I said to myself

'Was there something else that I could have done'

I'd rather die I'd rather die

And that always sort of worried me And having seen him and his

Name in the register - as you know in the memorials there's a little safe

There's a register in there with every name - and seeing his name and

His name on the memorial it sort of lightened myheart ifyou like

Woman) When was it that you saw his name on the memorial

Ah when I was eighty-seven that would be a year nineteeighty-

Four nineteen eighty-four

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