《Respectable》歌词

[00:00:00] Respectable - Don McLean (唐·麦克林)

[00:00:03] Ah it ain't so easy is it you almost lost your place

[00:00:08] And perhaps you're wondering

[00:00:09] How you're going to cope with your disgrace

[00:00:13] Well your wealth is well established

[00:00:15] And your friends were never few

[00:00:18] And all the things they told you of you're finding to be true

[00:00:25] Well if truth can free the guilty while the innocent must die

[00:00:30] Then I respect respect respect the coldest lie

[00:00:38] And you talk of human justice while you drive on fancy wheels

[00:00:44] And you push them to their limit just to see how nice it feels

[00:00:49] Well it doesn't really matter if she's living or she's dead

[00:00:53] You just drive away forgetting

[00:00:55] That your bumper's dipped in red

[00:01:00] Well if that's the kind of justice that our hall of justice claims

[00:01:05] Then I respect respect respect old jesse james

[00:01:13] And most cordially they caught you and they asked you to obey

[00:01:18] And they threw you into prison just in case you could not pay

[00:01:24] Well king arthur jousted lancelot who stole away his wife

[00:01:28] And your lawyers jousted with the court to save your precious life

[00:01:35] Well if living is what matters though you lie with every breath

[00:01:40] Then I respect respect the ones we put to death

[00:01:48] And you won your case most easily and soon you will be free

[00:01:53] But there will be a million more who lose their liberty

[00:01:59] Not because of what they did but what they did not do

[00:02:04] They did not pay a lawyer or a judge to see them through

[00:02:11] Why they had no friends to call on

[00:02:14] And they could not raise their bail

[00:02:17] Well if winning is what matters I respect the ones who fail