When You're Dead - Voltaire.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez
[00:08.28]The other day, I took a walk
[00:10.41]Because the air was sweet.
[00:12.27]And I passed the crusty house
[00:14.01]Of the curmudgeon on my street.
[00:16.26]Now, every town has got one
[00:18.15]So I'm sure you'll understand
[00:20.13]When I tell you this old bastard
[00:22.29]Is a mean and bitter man.
[00:27.36]Now, this day, it was special,
[00:29.25]I was wearing my new hat
[00:31.38]The old curmudgeon saw this
[00:33.39]And he disapproved of that. He said:
[00:35.73]"I've had one just like that
[00:37.32]For ten years, you ripped me off!
[00:39.54]You've got no right to wear a hat
[00:41.49]Like mine, so take it off!"
[00:46.47]As it happens, I'm a gentleman
[00:48.60]So I approached his porch.
[00:50.64]I told him; "Great minds think alike,
[00:52.83]And you have one, of course.
[00:54.57]So how 'bout I just tip my hat to you
[00:57.21]When I come through?"
[00:58.65]He reached down for his gun and said
[01:00.72]"I'll shoot you if you do!"
[01:03.27]And I said: "No one's gonna cry at your funeral.
[01:08.04]No one's gonna drink at your wake.
[01:12.09]No one's gonna sigh with a tear in their eye.
[01:15.93]'Cause no one's gonna miss you when you're dead."
[01:23.97]Well, the next day I forgot
[01:25.47]This whole damned mess
[01:26.58]And went to town. And there I saw
[01:29.13]A hundred or so posters all around
[01:32.07]And on them was my face,
[01:33.81]And I was wearing my new hat
[01:36.00]And they read: "This guy ripped me off,
[01:38.16]I've got one just like that!"
[01:43.14]I took a walk down to his house
[01:45.21]To see if I could find
[01:47.13]A way to show him
[01:48.39]That we're kindred spirits of the mind.
[01:51.21]I told him "I didn't make these hats,
[01:53.40]Nor did you, of course.
[01:55.23]And hey, we both love Johnny Cash..."
[01:57.39]He said "Get off my porch!"
[01:59.79]And I said: "No one's gonna cry at your funeral.
[02:04.56]No one's gonna drink at your wake.
[02:08.52]No one's gonna sigh with a tear in their eye.
[02:12.39]'Cause no one's gonna miss you when you're dead."
[02:21.15]When you look back on your life, what will you see?
[02:29.34]Did you spend your time mending fences or planting mines?
[02:37.26]There's no shortage of potential enemies, so don't
[02:44.61]Waste so much time pushing away your kind.
[03:29.07]I thought, I must be stupid,
[03:30.75]Or just crazy from the heat.
[03:32.67]When I went down to the house
[03:34.62]Of that curmudgeon on my street.
[03:37.17]Maybe it was foolish
[03:38.88]To go too his house again.
[03:41.22]Just to show this crazy drunken fool
[03:43.77]He had a friend.
[03:48.33]When I got there,
[03:49.38]Much to my surprise, he wasn't there.
[03:52.32]He was gone, as was his shotgun
[03:54.57]And his rocking chair.
[03:56.22]I asked the neighbour-lady,
[03:57.93]Who was lying on her lawn:
[03:59.85]"What happened to that mean old man?"
[04:02.28]She shrugged, and that was all.
[04:05.55]No one's gonna cry at your funeral.
[04:09.51]No one's gonna drink at your wake.
[04:13.62]No one's gonna sigh with a tear in their eye.
[04:17.43]'Cause no one's gonna miss you.
[04:20.73]Hell, no one's gonna notice.
[04:25.74]And I'll enjoy the silence...
[04:36.78]When you're dead!