[00:00.00] 作词 : Sixto Rodriguez[00:00.15] 作曲 : Sixto Rodriguez[00:00.31]Cause[00:19.88]Rodriguez[00:31.65]'Cause I lost my job two weeks before Christmas[00:44.43]And I talked to Jesus at the sewer[00:49.28]And the Pope said it was none of his God-damned business[00:57.39]While the rain drank champagne[01:02.09]My Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted[01:10.30]'Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got is the one I've never tasted[01:22.41]Oh but they'll take their bonus pay to Molly McDonald,[01:37.33]Neon ladies, beauty is that which obeys, is bought or borrowed[01:55.13]'Cause my heart's become a crooked hotel full of rumors[02:07.69]But it's I who pays the rent for these fingered-face out-of-tuners[02:20.35]And I make sixteen solid half hour friendships every evening[02:33.23]'Cause your queen of hearts who is half a stone[02:35.63]And likes to laugh alone is always threatening you with leaving[02:45.46]Oh but they play those token games on Willy Thompson[03:00.44]And give a medal to replace the son of Mrs. Annie Johnson[03:18.16]'Cause they told me everybody's got to pay their dues[03:23.03]And I explained that I had overpaid them[03:31.19]So overdued I went to the company store[03:36.09]And the clerk there said that they had just been invaded[03:43.93]So I set sail in a teardrop and escaped beneath the doorsill[03:56.74]'Cause the smell of her perfume echoes in my head still[04:22.90]'Cause I see my people trying to drown the sun[04:28.18]In weekends of whiskey sours[04:35.69]'Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?