Bobby Darin - In Memoriam - Текст песни

He's a ruthless opportunist 
      And he motivates by greed 
      He's just the way his father was 
      And that we sure don't need 
      So they all cried out destroy him 
      For he wants to see us drowned 
      They never understood him 
      So they put him in the ground. 

      Now some had stood for hours 
      And some sat on the grass 
      Listening to their radios 
      For where the train had passed 
      And a crowd will get impatient 
      As the clock hands turn around 
      They never understood him 
      So they put him in the ground. 

      They handed out some candles 
      To the somber weary crowd 
      And told us not to light them 
      Till our eyes beheld the shroud 
      Not even at that moment 
      Could there be tranquility 
      I could feel them push and argue 
      Hey, sit down, I cannot see 
      They never understood him 
      So they put him in the ground. 

      When the fathers closed their bibles 
      And the family left the site 
      The ropes and walls and hedges 
      Kind of faded in the night 
      Replaced by all the people 
      Who made a prayerful sound 
      They never understood him 
      So they put him in the ground. 

      Some people say the eighth of June 
      But the morning of the ninth 
      The workmen gently lowered him 
      By the beam of three work lights 
      Easy, take it easy 
      Set him down real slow 
      He'd been on some rougher trips 
      But he couldn't tell them so 
      They never understood him 
      So they put him in the ground. 

      Now no man has the answers 
      And he was just a man 
      And yet I can't help feelin' 
      That he knew a better plan 
      A shorter road to justice 
      On the trip that's freedom bound 
      But they never understood him 
      So they put him in the ground.