文本歌词

The Carny (嘉年华) - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (尼克·凯夫和坏种乐队)
And no-one saw the carny go
And the weeks flew by
Until they moved on the show
Leaving his caravan behind
It was parked out on the south east ridge
And as the company crossed the bridge
With the first rain filling the bone-dry river bed
It shone just so on the edge
Dog-boy atlas half-man the geeks the hired hands
There was not one among them
That did not cas an eye behind
In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind
The Carny left behind a horse
So skin and bone that he'd named Sorrow
And it was a shallow unmarked grave
That that old nag was laid
In the then parched meadow
And it was the dwarves
That were given the task of digging the ditch
And laying the nag's carcass in the ground
And boss Bellini waving his smoking pistol around
Saying 'The nag was dead meat'
'We can't afford to carry dead weight'
While the whole company standing about
Not making a sound
And turning to dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
The boss says 'Bury this lump of crow bait'
And the rain came hammering down
Everybody running for their wagons
Tying all the canvas flaps down
The mangy cats growling in their cages
The bird-girl flapping and squawking around
The whole valley reeking of wet beast
Wet beast and rotten sodden hay
Freak and brute creation
Packed up and on their way
The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind
Moses says to Noah 'We shoulda dugga deepa one'
Their grizzled faces like dying moons
Still dirty from the digging done
And Charlie the eldest of the three said
'I guess the Carny ain't gonna show'
And they were silent for a spell
Wishing they'd done a better job at burrying Sorrow
And as the company passed from the valley
Into a higher ground
The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow
And on the mound
Until nothing was left nothing left at all
Except the body of Sorrow
That rose in time
To float upon the surface of the eaten soil
And a murder of crows did circle round
First one then the others flapping blackly down
And the carny's van still sat upon the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludge
And the rain it hammered down
And the rain it hammered down
And the rain it hammered down
And the rain it hammered down
And no-one saw the carny go
No-one saw the carny go
No-one saw the carny go
I say it's funny how things go