Respectable-Don McLean

[ti:Respectable] [ar:Don McLean] [al:Tapestry] [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 [00:08.33]And perhaps you're wondering [00:09.48]How you're going to cope with your disgrace [00:13.60]Well your wealth is well established [00:15.97]And your friends were never few [00:18.40]And all the things they told you of you're finding to be true [00:25.70]Well if truth can free the guilty while the innocent must die [00:30.69]Then I respect respect respect the coldest lie [00:38.54]And you talk of human justice while you drive on fancy wheels [00:44.16]And you push them to their limit just to see how nice it feels [00:49.46]Well it doesn't really matter if she's living or she's dead [00:53.52]You just drive away forgetting [00:55.20]That your bumper's dipped in red [01:00.88]Well if that's the kind of justice that our hall of justice claims [01:05.69]Then I respect respect respect old jesse james [01:13.59]And most cordially they caught you and they asked you to obey [01:18.83]And they threw you into prison just in case you could not pay [01:24.46]Well king arthur jousted lancelot who stole away his wife [01:28.77]And your lawyers jousted with the court to save your precious life [01:35.82]Well if living is what matters though you lie with every breath [01:40.75]Then I respect respect the ones we put to death [01:48.72]And you won your case most easily and soon you will be free [01:53.77]But there will be a million more who lose their liberty [01:59.57]Not because of what they did but what they did not do [02:04.81]They did not pay a lawyer or a judge to see them through [02:11.92]Why they had no friends to call on [02:14.24]And they could not raise their bail [02:17.29]Well if winning is what matters I respect the ones who fail