Текст песни: That Could Have Been Me + перевод

I don’t know which way, the ball just bounces

I don’t know, maybe the cards just fall

Or maybe there’s some ancient chain of causes and effects

Got one man walking proud while another man crawls

There’s a guy sleeping out on the sidewalk in November

Newspaper pillow, rag for a coat, tangle of filthy hair

Imagine the story that probably goes with this picture

Imagine the forces that picked him up somewhere in life

And then threw him down there

He was somebody’s friend

Maybe somebody’s lover

He was somebody’s bouncing baby boy

He might even still have a father and mother

That could have been me

That could have been you

It should have been fiction

Turns out to be true

Turns out to be true

There’s another kind of guy living up on the top of this city

View of the mountains, view of the ocean, view of the losers below

He probably didn’t wind up living there accidentally

He got all the right breaks, he caught all the right waves

Figured out which way the wind here blows

And he thinks about power

And he thinks about fabulous wealth

When he thinks about people at all

They’re only important in terms of himself

And that could have been me

That could have been you

It should have been fiction

Turns out to be true

That could have been me

That could have been you

I wish it would have been fiction

Instead of the truth

Turns out to be true

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