暂停下载lrc！<br><br>[ti:red cotton]<br>[ar:elvis costello]<br>[al:secret, profane and sugarcane]<br>[by:朱古力]<br>[00:00.00]elvis costello - red cotton<br>[00:05.00]lrc by www.geciduoduo.com  朱古力<br>[00:10.00]<br>[00:15.02]i’m cutting up her pure white dress<br>[00:22.67]that i dyed red<br>[00:26.44]that i dyed red<br>[00:30.17]i’m putting scraps in cheap tin lockets<br>[00:37.29]what time erases and memory mocks<br>[00:45.22]i’ll send them over the ocean foam<br>[00:52.62]right into those gentle european homes<br>[01:02.43]<br>[01:06.82]the slave ship "blessing" slipped from liverpool<br>[01:13.63]over the waves the royal navy rules<br>[01:20.38]to go and plunder the kingdom of benin<br>[01:26.45]where certain history ends and shame begins<br>[01:33.75]dahomey traders paid in powder and shot<br>[01:41.03]line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots<br>[01:47.81]they packed them tight inside those coffin ships<br>[01:53.35]and took them to the brand new world of<br>[01:57.89]auction blocks and whips<br>[02:02.28]i’m cutting up her pure white dress<br>[02:09.87]that i dyed red<br>[02:13.54]that i dyed red<br>[02:17.40]i’m putting scraps in cheap tin lockets<br>[02:24.46]what time erases and memory mocks<br>[02:31.92]i’ll send them over the ocean foam<br>[02:39.72]right into those gentle european homes<br>[02:50.10]white is the sheet on your fine linen bed<br>[02:56.41]the blood stained red on each cotton thread<br>[03:03.69]merchants will gather at st. george’s hall<br>[03:09.23]to unveil the kneeling slave who is carved upon the wall<br>[03:16.93]<br>[03:19.48]so picture the scene on the old salt house docks<br>[03:26.04]where they loaded the iron shackles and locks<br>[03:32.45]between a sandstone crocodile, a barrel and a bale<br>[03:38.45]you will see the nameless faces they were offering for sale<br>[03:48.03]<br>[03:50.52]so, i sing the praises of god’s glory<br>[03:57.70]as a blue cetacean floats in the basement<br>[04:04.60]an elephant on the second storey<br>[04:12.19]they queue all day to see him<br>[04:15.61]in my american museum<br>[04:21.12]<br>[04:24.64]but the lord will judge us with fire and thunder<br>[04:31.89]as man continues in all his blunders<br>[04:39.04]it’s only money<br>[04:42.53]it’s only numbers<br>[04:46.16]maybe it is time to put aside these fictitious wonders<br>[04:56.30]<br>[04:58.98]but man is feeble<br>[05:02.89]man is puny<br>[05:06.68]and if it should divide the union<br>[05:14.34]there is no man that should own another<br>[05:21.65]when he can’t even recognise his sister and his brother<br>[05:32.82]<br>