Bobby Darin - In Memoriam Lyrics
He's a ruthless opportunistAnd he motivates by greedHe's just the way his father wasAnd that we sure don't needSo they all cried out destroy himFor he wants to see us drownedThey never understood himSo they put him in the ground.Now some had stood for hoursAnd some sat on the grassListening to their radiosFor where the train had passedAnd a crowd will get impatientAs the clock hands turn aroundThey never understood himSo they put him in the ground.They handed out some candlesTo the somber weary crowdAnd told us not to light themTill our eyes beheld the shroudNot even at that momentCould there be tranquilityI could feel them push and argueHey, sit down, I cannot seeThey never understood himSo they put him in the ground.When the fathers closed their biblesAnd the family left the siteThe ropes and walls and hedgesKind of faded in the nightReplaced by all the peopleWho made a prayerful soundThey never understood himSo they put him in the ground.Some people say the eighth of JuneBut the morning of the ninthThe workmen gently lowered himBy the beam of three work lightsEasy, take it easySet him down real slowHe'd been on some rougher tripsBut he couldn't tell them soThey never understood himSo they put him in the ground.Now no man has the answersAnd he was just a manAnd yet I can't help feelin'That he knew a better planA shorter road to justiceOn the trip that's freedom boundBut they never understood himSo they put him in the ground.
