Alabama Chrome
(专辑: Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See - 2004)
Sunday I
am young and wild, Monday I
go lame. Tuesday I
start twitching, Wednesday I'm insane. Thursday I
lay dying, Friday I'm quite dead. Saturday I
get carried away by things better left unsaid. But heaven ain't no place, brother, and love ain't no word sister. And prison ain't no building made of iron bars and stone. You can seek the
rhyme and reason, but in the
realm of the
unknown you won't catch no true reflections in that "Alabama Chrome." For there's mountains you will scale with ease, yet molehills where you stumble. Sins you so regret and yet other sins that you enjoy. Harps can beg forgiveness, and the
guitars can scream pain, but the
contradictions are larger than any language can explain. For in the
secret territory where the
preachers come to steal the
jewel of your heart, for they have no treasure of their own, there lies a
sacred window, in your hand the
perfect stone. You'd throw it, but you arms are bound 'round with that "Alabama Chrome." The
heat it is withering, humidity smothering. Strip of silver tape, a
sly lie covering dent in the
side of the
redneck ride. Going deep for the
Crimson Tide. Yeah! Gonna bump to the
thump of the
Selma slammer. Wanna jump up and down like a
wack jackhammer. Sing a
little 'Sweet Home Alabama' Jimmy gimme wink like a
big flimflammer. Bone tired and so weary of treating truth as a
lie, I
been hunkered down in the
bunker of some fools alibi. Squint harder you will see the
slim tether of the
saints. It's whipping wild in the
hurricane of all that is and all that ain't. 'Cause there's angels in the
shed mother and spiders in the
bed brother and ghosts inside my head father, no I
am not alone. My mind is teeth without a
mouth, my thoughts are marrow without bone. My eyes are blinded by a
thousand layers of that god damn "Alabama Chrome."