作词 : Matt Johnson
作曲 : Matt Johnson
There's a high wind blowin,
and the stars are shining bright,
O what a night this is gonna be—
I think I'll let the world sleep without me
I got one eye open,
one eye closed;
and my thin body's trembling
beneath the bedclothes
My heart’s beatin'
against the roof of my mouth
—It's almost time to get out of this house.
I got one hand on the radio,
one hand on the wheel
I got my right foot on the floorboard,
and I'm preparing to kill or be killed
There's a high wind blowin',
and the stars are shining bright
And the rain upon the tarmac
helps me sail through the traffic lights
I'm heading down to the dock of the bay
to feel the power of the waves
I'm gonna move up close to that wind
and wrestle with the thoughts solitude always brings
You see
I'm stuck between hell and the deep blue sea;
and I know
that water’s sucked under better man than me
I was just another western guy
with desires that couldn't be satisfied
So one day,
I asked the angels for inspiration,
but the devil bought me a drink,
and he's been buying them ever since
He's had the liquor on my tongue,
feels like the sea upon the sand
He's had me signing confessions
from this shaking hand
He's had me struggling to hang onto hope
like a drunken sailor in a tugboat,
with a bottle of vodka in my overcoat,
and my dog eared bible lost overboard
You see,
he tricked me into temptation,
so I've tricked him into this confrontation
I never said I was the man I appeared to be
—not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity
or the soul on fire scribbling thoughts for posterity
I'm gonna have little Lucifer runnin' off to purgatory
with his tail between his legs
I'm gonna teach him a lesson he ain't ever gonna forget
All the vultures and crows
are fixing up some tombstones,
but they won't be chewing the meat off my bones
There's a high wind blowin'
and the stars are shining bright
Me and him are gonna have a little knife fight
in the bowels of the big city skyline
O this feelin' inside runs dark and deep
Tonight my heart’s not thumping a mercy beat
I was just another western guy
with desires that couldn't be satisfied