don mclean
respectable transcribed by alex ceserani

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ah , it aint so easy is it? you almost lost your place .
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and perhaps youre wondering how youre going to cope with your disgrace .
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well your wealth is well established and your friends were never few ,
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and all the things they told you of youre finding to be true .
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well if truth can free the guilty while the innocent must die ,
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then i respect , respect , respect the coldest lie .

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and you talk of human justice while you drive on fancy wheels .
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and you push them to their limit just to see how nice it feels .
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well it doesnt really matter if shes living or shes dead ,
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you just drive away forgetting that your bumpers dipped in red .
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well if thats the kind of justice that our hall of justice claims ,
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then i respect , respect , respect old jesse james .

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and most cordially they caught you and they asked you to obey .
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and they threw you into prison , just in case you could not pay .
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well king arthur jousted lancelot , who stole away his wife;
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and your lawyers jousted with the court to save your precious life .
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well if living is what matters though you lie with every breath ,
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then i respect , respect , the ones we put to death .

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and you won your case most easily and soon you will be free .
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but there will be a million more who lose their liberty .
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not because of what they did , but what they did not do :
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they did not pay a lawyer or a judge to see them through .
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why , they had no friends to call on and they could not raise their bail .
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well if winning is what matters , i respect the ones who fail .