PINBALL MACHINE — текст песни (The Fall)

I`m an old road-hog
I drove a big truck
Shot the pinball machine, but it brought me bad luck.
If oceans was whiskey and I was a dove
I`d dive into it and never come up.
I wish they`d outlaw them old pinball machines
Many weeks they have caused me to live on sardines.



Last time I called my wife on the phone,
The first thing she said was "John, can you come home?
I got a lot of lodgers and they`ve got to go."
I said "I`ll see you when I get back from the depot."



She said "John, you know I love you, I wish you wouldn`t go
Send your babies some money. They`re hungry and cold."
The last thing she said, and then she hung up, was
"John you gave up my loving to drive an old truck."



I made my trip up to the depot
I was gone two months cause I shot up my dough
When I got home my family was gone
The best friend I had rung my telephone.
He said "John, I guess you wonder `bout your babies and wife...
Pneumonia got your babies and your wife took her life."
I`ve lost all my friends, can`t sleep for bad dreams
I dream about a old truck and a pinball machine.



I never will forget the last words that old man said:
"Oh Lord, if I could live my life over,"
And then he fell dead, the victim of an old truck.



He was a clean-cut young man at the age of nineteen,
But now he`s in his grave,
The victim of an old truck
And a pinball machine.