Pinball Machine — текст песни (Fall)

[], I drove a big truck
Shot the pinball machine, but it brought me bad luck.
If oceans was whiskey and I was a duck
I`d dive into in and never come up.
I wish they`d outlaw them old pinball machines
For 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 shut up my door (?)
When I got home my family was gone
The best friend I had was on 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
About a battered 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, eight- or nineteen,
But now he`s in his grave,
The victim of an old truck
And a pinball machine.