Elvis Costello - Red Cotton
LRC by 朱古力
I"m cutting up her pure white dress
That I dyed red
That I dyed red
I"m putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
What time erases and memory mocks
I"ll send them over the ocean foam
Right into those gentle European homes
The slave ship "Blessing" slipped from Liverpool
Over the waves the Royal Navy rules
To go and plunder the Kingdom of Benin
Where certain history ends and shame begins
Dahomey traders paid in powder and shot
Line up their prisoners and they sell them in lots
They packed them tight inside those coffin ships
And took them to the brand new world of
auction blocks and whips
I"m cutting up her pure white dress
That I dyed red
That I dyed red
I"m putting scraps in cheap tin lockets
What time erases and memory mocks
I"ll send them over the ocean foam
Right into
