Respectable-Don McLean

[ti:Respectable] [ar:Don McLean] [al:The Very Best Of Don McLean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Respectable - Don McLean (唐·麦克林) [00:03.08]Ah it ain't so easy is it you almost lost your place [00:07.10] [00:08.46]And perhaps you're wondering [00:09.95]How you're going to cope with your disgrace [00:12.59] [00:14.19]Well your wealth is well established [00:15.91]And your friends were never few [00:17.55] [00:18.19]And all the things they told you of you're finding to be true [00:21.88] [00:25.67]Well if truth can free the guilty while the innocent must die [00:29.13] [00:30.49]Then I respect respect respect the coldest lie [00:35.20] [00:38.60]And you talk of human justice while you drive on fancy wheels [00:42.45] [00:44.23]And you push them to their limit just to see how nice it feels [00:48.09] [00:49.56]Well it doesn't really matter if she's living or she's dead [00:52.71] [00:53.47]You just drive away forgetting [00:55.34]That your bumper's dipped in red [00:57.27] [01:00.96]Well if that's the kind of justice that our hall of justice claims [01:04.68] [01:05.84]Then I respect respect respect old Jesse James [01:10.06] [01:13.74]And most cordially they caught you and they asked you to obey [01:17.15] [01:19.00]And they threw you into prison just in case you could not pay [01:23.00] [01:24.59]Well king Arthur jousted Lancelot who stole away his wife [01:28.60]And your lawyers jousted with the court to save your precious life [01:32.40] [01:35.98]Well if living is what matters though you lie with every breath [01:39.64] [01:40.88]Then I respect respect the ones we put to death [01:45.04] [01:48.89]And you won your case most easily and soon you will be free [01:52.41] [01:53.97]But there will be a million more who lose their liberty [01:57.51] [01:59.79]Not because of what they did but what they did not do [02:03.31] [02:05.02]They did not pay a lawyer or a judge to see them through [02:08.68] [02:12.17]Why they had no friends to call on [02:14.02]And they could not raise their bail [02:15.82] [02:17.53]Well if winning is what matters I respect the ones who fail