Album Name

American Pie-The Greatest Hits Don McLean

Artist

Don McLean

Genre

포크

Release Date

2003.04.04

Release Agency

Universal Music

Respectable - 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.