《Old and Only In the Way》歌词

[00:00:00] Old and Only In the Way - Loudon Wainwright III

[00:00:00] When you walk along the street

[00:00:05] How oftentimes you meet

[00:00:10] Some poor old man who's gotten old and gray

[00:00:19] With age his back is bent

[00:00:23] In his pockets not a cent

[00:00:27] And for shelter he has no place to stay

[00:00:36] His relations by the score

[00:00:41] They'll turn him from the door

[00:00:45] They'll see him on the street and pass him by

[00:00:53] If you ask them why they do

[00:00:58] They'll turn and say to you

[00:01:02] "He is old he's gray he's only in the way "

[00:01:13] Now let us cheer them on

[00:01:18] For they won't be with us long

[00:01:22] Don't sneer at them because they're old and gray

[00:01:30] Just remember while you're young

[00:01:35] That for you the day may come

[00:01:39] When you'll be old and gray and only in the way

[00:01:50] Now my message I am sure

[00:01:55] Is for rich as well as poor

[00:02:00] For take a rich man when he's growing old

[00:02:08] His relations 'round him stand

[00:02:13] And take him by the hand

[00:02:18] They all want him to die they want his gold

[00:02:26] And what it's truly worth to own

[00:02:31] The riches of this earth

[00:02:35] He'll discover at the closing of the day

[00:02:43] After all he's like the poor

[00:02:48] When his journey's nearly o'er

[00:02:52] He finds he's old and gray and only in the way

[00:03:04] Now let us cheer them on

[00:03:08] For they won't be with us long

[00:03:12] Don't sneer at them because they're old and gray

[00:03:21] Just remember while you're young

[00:03:26] That for you the day may come

[00:03:30] When you'll be old and gray and only in the way