[00:00.000] 作曲 : Brian McLaughlin[00:06.467]nobody came to my retirement party[00:09.619]nobody cares when you’re on your way out[00:12.713]inconsequential and oh so replaceable[00:15.850]all along I thought I would’ve left with more than nothing to show[00:19.030][00:22.042]I once was hailed as the prince of invention[00:25.181]I once was cast as a modern Galois[00:28.250]nobody came to my retirement party[00:31.313]all along I thought I would’ve left with more than nothing to show[00:34.618][00:39.678]I place my things in a cardboard box[00:42.323]swiftly struck by a swivelling shard of the past[00:44.999]schoolyard voices swirling around[00:48.069]the other kids: aspiring firemen and ballerinas[00:51.523]me: walls plastered with equations[00:54.324]out to prove or disprove the magnetic monopole,[00:57.888]swim far from thought’s shallows,[00:59.854]hold experiments, teach classes[01:01.624]then someone said:[01:02.647][01:02.889]“there’s no money in that![01:04.438]quick wit to pick apart fiction from fact[01:07.235]you’ve got brains, kid, go make some cash!”[01:10.177][01:10.427]with neon dollar-sign eyeballs,[01:13.330]Hollowed-out heart, I’m placing bets on life or death[01:16.080]listless drips seep through the teeming weeks[01:19.252]and I lose respect for myself[01:21.971][01:43.050]hope is the last of the spirit to falter[01:46.131]hope is a weight that drags from within[01:49.224]and if I’d known in the end it was worth it[01:52.196]I would’ve followed that hope to begin