[00:00.00] 作词 : Tom Waits/Sam Spiegel/Zé Gonzales/Matthew Keith Thornton/Catulo da Paixao Cearense
[00:00.60] 作曲 : Tom Waits/Sam Spiegel/Zé Gonzales/Matthew Keith Thornton/Catulo da Paixao Cearense
[00:01.20]Intro (Kool Keith)
[00:01.65]Yeah! This is a national message! N.A.S.A. worldwide! One Take the spotlight off me. (take the spotlight off me)
[00:21.63]Verse (Kool Keith)
[00:24.30]I remember when the Cubans was first on Broadway.
[00:27.39]With dark and yellow gold,
[00:29.28]I was 11 years old.
[00:30.96]The inspiration was spread out like a blanket, ask em.
[00:33.99]My discovery was beyond the pick, the Lee suit, and the afro.
[00:37.92]Now from the flair jeans on 169th and College.
[00:41.28]Watching the dude lean on one-seven-o,
[00:43.86]With a Kangol 'cross America,
[00:45.99]I saw the hippies cross.
[00:47.94]By Herc on Technique needles syncopated time was on time,
[00:51.84]The same time as the Beatles.
[00:54.18]I was up there watching James Brown's pockets, stuffed with Jolly Ranchers,
[00:58.68]When the NFL had the Rams in Los Angeles,
[01:01.80]Charles Finley in Oakland,
[01:03.60]And my kindergarten moment was the beginning.
[01:06.30]'Til the Caribbean people came to New York and the sheepskin was bought.
[01:10.68]The wind breaker!
[01:11.58]Chorus (Tom Waits & Kool Keith)
[01:12.54]The building never fall down.
[01:15.78]They are the teeth of the town (spacious thoughts).
[01:18.39]They crush us up in they grind.
[01:18.99]The meet and bone of the mind.
[01:22.98]We gather here on the block (spacious thoughts).
[01:27.51]They key broke off in the lock.
[01:29.19]I'll meet you down at the well.
[01:31.98]I'll meet you down at the well (spacious thoughts).
[01:35.67]Verse (Tom Waits)
[01:36.39]The balloon drops down at midnight.
[01:39.00]Stranglin' the monkey with the hands of a clock.
[01:47.19]Good can't help but do a little evil.
[01:51.06]Evil can't help but,
[01:54.15]Do a little good.
[01:54.57]Who's that singin' in the kitchen by the stove?
[02:01.92]All aboard for the night train!
[02:05.52]They say the moon, it smells just like a cherry bomb.
[02:11.25]Come on home.
[02:13.56]All is forgiven.
[02:17.01]Everything costs.
[02:19.26]Deliver us from evil,
[02:20.85]And carry your own cross.
[02:23.01]Chorus (Tom Waits & Kool Keith)
[02:24.51]The building never fall down.
[02:27.54]They are the teeth of the town (spacious thoughts).
[02:29.01]They crush us up in they grind.
[02:29.76]The meet and bone of the mind
[02:34.95]We gather here on the block (spacious thoughts).
[02:39.15]They key broke off in the lock.
[02:40.98]I'll meet you down at the well.
[02:43.98]I'll meet you down at the well (spacious thoughts).
[02:45.75]Bridge (Kool Keith)
[02:48.12]The time gathered with poppy seeds and grass.
[02:51.30]Growing nobody faster than Jesse Owens.
[02:54.18]With everything I'm seeing and knowing.
[02:56.25]London Heathrow,
[02:57.66]Walking through the airport with green Pro-Keds.
[03:00.66]Sixty-niners from the designers,
[03:03.27]Tom McCann above the hill,
[03:05.16]Next to my man, Lou Man,
[03:07.50]The cardigan sweaters,
[03:09.03]They still stell the New Eras now at Jew Man!
[03:11.49]Bridge cont. (Tom Waits)
[03:12.36]Ghetto Buddha in the second set,
[03:16.50]Breaking out in a cold sweat.
[03:20.07]I'll meet you in the music.
[03:22.47]We meet in the music,
[03:24.81]Those we never met.
[03:27.36]Keep dancing like there's nobody watching.
[03:31.56]Everyone can win the toss.
[03:34.20]I may wander, but I am never lost.
[03:35.70]Chorus (Tom Waits & Kool Keith)
[03:36.24]The building never fall down.
[03:36.87]They are the teeth of the town (spacious thoughts).
[03:40.98]They crush us up when they grind.
[03:42.12]The meet and bone of the mind.
[03:46.98]We gather here on the block (spacious thoughts).
[03:49.95]The key broke off in the lock.
[03:55.98]I'll meet you down at the well.
[04:11.79]I'll meet you down at the well (spacious thoughts).