所属专辑:The Black Cat’s Around! (Live)
歌手: An Cat Dubh
时长: 02:45
Ordinary Man - An Cat Dubh[00:00:00]
I'm an ordinary man[00:00:05]
Nothing special[00:00:07]
Nothing grand[00:00:08]
I've had to work for everything I own[00:00:09]
I never asked for a lot[00:00:13]
I was happy with what I got[00:00:15]
Enough to keep my family and my home[00:00:17]
Now that times are hard[00:00:21]
And they've founded me my cards[00:00:23]
They say[00:00:25]
There's not the work to go around[00:00:25]
When the whistle blows[00:00:28]
This gates will finally close[00:00:30]
Tonight they're going to[00:00:32]
Shut this factory down[00:00:33]
They'll tear it down[00:00:35]
They'll tear it down[00:00:39]
I never missed a day[00:00:43]
Nor went on strike for better pay[00:00:45]
For twenty years[00:00:47]
I served them the best I could[00:00:48]
With a handshake and a cheque[00:00:51]
It seems so easy to forget[00:00:52]
Loyalty through the bad times and the good[00:00:54]
The owner says he's sad to see[00:00:58]
That things have got so bad[00:01:00]
But the captains of industry will let him loose[00:01:02]
He still drives a car[00:01:05]
He smokes a cigar[00:01:07]
And still he takes his family on a cruise[00:01:09]
He'll never lose[00:01:12]
He'll never lose[00:01:16]
Now it seems to me to be[00:01:20]
Such a cruel irony[00:01:22]
He's richer now than ever he was before[00:01:24]
The cheque it is all spent[00:01:27]
And I can't afford the rent[00:01:29]
There's one law for the rich[00:01:31]
One for the poor[00:01:32]
Every day I've tried to salvage[00:01:35]
Some of my pride[00:01:36]
To find some work so I might pay my way[00:01:38]
But everywhere I go the answer's always no[00:01:42]
There's no work for anyone here today[00:01:45]
No work today[00:01:49]
No work today[00:01:52]
So condemned[00:01:56]
I stand just an ordinary man[00:01:57]
Like thousands beside me in the queue[00:02:00]
I watch my darling wife[00:02:03]
Trying to make the best of life[00:02:05]
God knows what the kids are going to do[00:02:07]
Now that we are faced[00:02:11]
With this human waste[00:02:12]
A generation cast aside[00:02:14]
As long as I live[00:02:17]
I never will forgive[00:02:19]
You've stripped me off my dignity and prid[00:02:21]
You've stripped me bare[00:02:24]
You've stripped me bare[00:02:28]
You've stripped me bare[00:02:32]
You've stripped me bare[00:02:35]