The Ballad of the Sin Eather

作曲 : Leo

When you run, digger, runner, listener, thief

You carry it all with you

Today I woke up uncertain

And you know that gives me the fits

So I left this land of fungible convictions

Because it seemed like the pits

When I say convictions

I mean it's something to abjure

And when I say uncertain

I mean to doubt I'll not turn out a caricature

So I set off in search of my forebears

'Cause my forbearance was in need

But the only job I could get in dear old Blighty

Was working on the railway between Selby and Leeds

So I took a ferry to Belfast

Where I had cause to think

They wanted none of my armchair convictions

But nobody seemed to mind when I was putting on the drinks

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

Ah, but they hate you, they hate you 'cause you're guilty

So I stayed out all night in Ibixa

By way of San Sebastian

Where they said "yankee, you better watch what you're saying

Unless you're saying it in Basque or in Catalan"

So all the way east to Novi-Sad

Nary a bridge was to be seen

But mother Russia, she laid her pontoons on down

So I crossed over, if you know what I mean

Then on the road to Damascus

Yes, the scales, they fell from my eyes

And the simplest lesson I learned at the mount of olives

That everybody lies

And the French foreign legion

You know they did their best

But I never believed in T.E. Lawrence

So how the hell could I believe in Beau Gest?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

Ah, but they hate you, make no mistake, they hate you

So I spent a night in Kigali

In a five diamond hotel

Where maybe someday they'll to the watusi

On down in Hutu hell

I fell in with a merchant marine

Who promised to take me home

But when I woke up all beaten and bloodied

I couldn't tell if it was Jersey or Sierra Leone

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

Ah, but they hate you, they hate you 'cause you're guilty

So, you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now would you?

Ah, but they hate you, make no mistake, they hate you

And the knocking in my head

Just like the knocking at my door

And maybe it was me or maybe it was my brother

But either me or me and him went down to the bar

Where I got seven powers in me

For to give me the cure

When seven powers failed to spin me

I had to get me seven more

And when I say me

I mean my brain

And when I say give me the cure

I mean to kill the pain

And when I say kill the pain

I mean to get the devil out

And when I say devil

I mean the manifestation of doubt

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

Ah, but they hate you, they hate you 'cause you're guilty

So, you didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now did you?

You didn't think they could hate you, now would you?

Ah, but they hate you, make no mistake, they hate you