[00:00.00] 作词 : David Randall Blythe/William M. Adler/John Steven Campbell/Mark Duane Morton[00:00.00] 作曲 : David Randall Blythe/William M. Adler/John Steven Campbell/Mark Duane Morton[00:00.00] Driving down blistered severe[00:19.68]The rapacious maw of our despair[00:23.19]Black dog follows, strip club echoes[00:26.67]The raven’s shadow across the ghetto[00:37.80]Up the hill in an unmarked grave[00:40.89]The mother of American darkness lays[00:44.49]Liberty or death to start the battle[00:47.94]There’s nonesuch place for human chattel.[00:59.91]Hanging by a threat[01:04.38]Now you can choke on it[01:06.90]Hanging by a threat[01:11.31]So go and choke on it[01:15.30]This is a reckoning[01:18.66]You hear the ravens scream[01:20.46]Hanging by a threat[01:25.41]So go and choke on it.[01:30.63]Across the devil’s own half acre,[01:34.05]There’s rusted gallows for an angel[01:37.89]The ghosts that built this city scream[01:41.28]Of commerce and inhumanity[01:45.27]Cancer rides the freeway’s edge[01:48.54]Falling statues and cigarettes[01:52.05]Bullets whip the screaming kettle[01:56.19]As teargas cloaks the monumental.[02:07.71]Hanging by a threat[02:11.43]Now you can choke on it[02:13.35]Hanging by a threat[02:18.36]So go and choke on it[02:22.29]This is a reckoning[02:25.74]You hear the ravens scream[02:27.51]Hanging by a threat[02:32.46]So go and choke on it.[02:56.43]Chained beneath a parking lot[02:59.91]Savaged on the auction block[03:03.57]In antebellum geography[03:06.99]Rage, horror, history.[04:16.59]Nevermore.