Текст песни: Rooster + перевод

The haze of coffin nails and the scent of liquid nerve

Swirl through the vacant garden rows

The verb coils warm as the check, check, checker

Reigns in his ersatz troubadour clothes

The ivory is stale as the company

Chestnut roots and fifths bled dry

The tired minstrel turns out uninspired words

Of hope and change and other statist lies

Cue the garbled sketch of an overpass arena

Where Rooster croons for an audience of two

Passing pairs of headlights make for transient marquees

And the stars guide his fingers in those rusty twelve-bar blues

They start with pilfered wives, then slide to maudlin sighs

For his only son who married a machine

He flails his head about as his voice grows loud

But nothing comes to mind for the turnaround

So he says whoa whoa whoa whoa, don’t wanna settle down

Left with the slurred advice «don't depend on anyone,»

I slowly nod, but purge it from my brain,

Assure myself that it’s too late, it’s too late for that

And hope to all that’s holy that won’t change

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