Other Peoples Failure — текст песни (John Wesley Harding)

Maybe youre insecure

Neck deep in lifes manure

Maybe your hearts impure

Inured to all small compensations

Maybe youre born to lose

Could be caught out or confused

Wearing the condemned mans shoes

Worn out, beyond a warning

There might be one million ills that ail ya

But why do you take pleasure in other peoples failure?





Each day since time began

Youll meet a modest man

Who says he understands

Your plans, your dreams, your schemes, your feelings

But rather you than me

Thats his mentality

Hes a slave to gravity

And he watches laughing as you fall down

He doesnt even have to nail ya

Thats why he takes pleasure in other peoples failure





It is a rule of thumb

Inside the coliseum

That when the time will come

Wed rather see the losers slaughtered

And no-one can resist

This vicarious kiss

It is our greatest bliss

The twist that gives success its flavour

A psychopathic psychedelia....

Thats why we take pleasure in other peoples failure