Sleep Of The Just

Sleep Of The Just - Elvis Costello (埃爾維斯 科斯特洛)

Written by：Declan MacManus

Soldier asked my name into the I come here very often

And further she was asking me to dance

In my holy coat and hat

And him in his red bonnet

We'd have made a lovely couple but

We never had the chance

Now you say that you've gotta go

Well if you must you must

I suppose that you need the sleep of the just

Well it was a powerful day

And there were black crows in the road

And I kept my strong opinions to my chest

I suppose I should have told them that

I was on fire for you

When the bus burst into flames outside some place

The Poet's Rest'

Now you say you've gotta go

Well if you must you must

I suppose that you need the sleep of the just

A girl woke up in a naked light

And said Oh no not again

He even looked like her brother in the army but

She never mentions him

He'll be tucked up in his bed tonight

With his dirty pictures girl

Saying 'You're some mother's daughter

You know or is it

Immaterial girl

Now she's pinned up upon

The barracks wall in her home town

All the soldiers taking turns with their attentions

And as they speculate what

She'd look like beneath that thin nightgown

His family pride was rising up as

He cast his eyes down

Now you say that you've gotta go

If you must you must

I suppose that you need the sleep of the just