A Man Of Great Promise-The Style Council

[00:00.000] 作词 : Weller [00:01.000] 作曲 : Paul Weller [00:15.86]I bought the paper yesterday and I saw the obituary [00:21.49]And I read of how you died in pain - [00:24.74]Well I just couldn't understand it [00:28.42]If I could of changed that, then Lord knows I'd do it now [00:35.38]But there is no going back - [00:38.72]And what's done is done forever [00:43.01]But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt - [01:12.30]And I think of what you might have been, [01:15.72]a man of such great promise [01:19.23]Oh but, you seem to forget the dream - [01:22.86]And the more you saw you hated [01:26.13]But let's not talk of blame, for what is only natural [01:33.32]Like a moth going to a flame - [01:34.38][00:51.88]Of every small town institution and every big town flirt [01:36.79]You had a dangerous passion [01:42.71]But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt - [01:49.74]Of every small town institution and every big town flirt [01:57.28]All the things that you might have been - but who am I to say? [02:02.94]Still I wonder - [02:04.85]If it's in the cold earth you prefer to lay - [02:11.90]If it's in the cold earth - you prefer to stay