Respectable

作词:佚名

作曲:Don Mclean

所属专辑:The Very Best Of Don McLean

歌词

歌曲名 Respectable

歌手名 Don McLean

作曲:Don McLean

Ah it ain't so easy is it you almost lost your place

And perhaps you're wondering

How you're going to cope with your disgrace

Well your wealth is well established

And your friends were never few

And all the things they told you

of you're finding to be true

Well if truth can free the guilty

while the innocent must die

Then I respect respect respect the coldest lie

And you talk of human justice

while you drive on fancy wheels

And you push them to their limit

just to see how nice it feels

Well it doesn't really matter

if she's living or she's dead

You just drive away forgetting

That your bumper's dipped in red

Well if that's the kind of justice

that our hall of justice claims

Then I respect respect respect old Jesse James

And most cordially they caught you

and they asked you to obey

And they threw you into prison

just in case you could not pay

Well king Arthur jousted Lancelot

who stole away his wife

And your lawyers jousted with the court

to save your precious life

Well if living is what matters

though you lie with every breath

Then I respect respect the ones we put to death

And you won your case most easily

and soon you will be free

But there will be a million more

who lose their liberty

Not because of what they did

but what they did not do

They did not pay a lawyer

or a judge to see them through

Why they had no friends to call on

And they could not raise their bail

Well if winning is what matters

I respect the ones who fail

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