Текст песни: When the World Was Young + перевод

On the bus to Oaxaca with a head full of coke,

oh I was feeling so strung out, way beyond hope,

ten pesos in my pocket and no more dope,

I was feeling like the hangman, I was feeling like the rope.

When the world was young, when the world was dumb,

when the world was young.

You gonna speak or just stand there and choke.

I said what’s that supposed to mean,

is that some kind of joke.

Well, she grinned, then she laughed,

then she blew out some smoke.

She said I see you’ve got no class, and you’re dead broke.

Three days and nights I was under her care.

Everything she had was our’s to share.

On that fourth day when I awoke there was nobody there,

twelve hundred pesos and a book of poems left on the chair.

When the world was young, when the world was dumb,

when the was young.

Six of us squatting in a two room place.

We were scamming welfare, cooking on a hot place.

I thought I heard some noise, but it was too late,

oh the cops came rushing in and they smashed my face.

Eight hours later when I was released,

I found little Donny waiting for me out on the street,

He said I went and found some money,

let’s get something to eat.

I said sounds good to me brother, and fuck the police.

When the world was young, when the world was dumb,

when the world was young.

Twenty years later I’m living out West,

I started with nothing, I got lots of nothing left.

They say the palace of wisdom is on the road of excess,

I don’t know nothing about that, but I still feel blessed.

I’m not much, I’m practically unknown,

but when I sing it’s still close to the bone,

and the life that I’ve led, it’s been all my own,

the kindness I’ve received and the love I’ve been shown.

When the world was young, when the world was dumb,

when the world was young,

When the world was young, when the world was dumb,

when the world was young.

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