Ticking

Ticking - Elton John (艾爾頓·約翰)

Written by：Elton John/Bernie Taupin

An extremely quiet child

They called you in your school

Report

He's always taken interest

In the subjects that he's taught

So what was it that brought

The squad car screaming

Up your drive

To notify your parents of the manner

In which you died

At saint patrick's every Sunday

Father fletcher heard your sins

Oh he's unconcerned with competition

He never cares to win

But blood stained a young hand

That never held a

Gun

And his parents never thought of him

As their troubled son

Now you'll never get to heaven

Mama said

Remember mama said

Ticking

Ticking

Grow up straight and true blue

Run along to bed

Hear it

Hear it ticking ticking

They had you holed up in a downtown bar

Screaming for a priest

Some gook said his brains just snapped

Then someone called the police

You'd knifed a negro waiter who had tried

To calm you down

Oh you'd pulled a gun and told them all

To lay still on the ground

Promising to hurt no one providing

They were still

A young man tried to make a break

With tear

Filled eyes you killed

You killed

That gun but felt so smooth and warm

Cradled in your palm

Oh your childhood cried out

In your head they mean

To do you harm

Don't ever ride on the devil's knee mama said

Remember mama said

Ticking ticking

Pay your penance well my child

Fear where angels tread

Hear it

Hear it ticking ticking

Within an hour the news had reached

The media machine

A male caucasian with a gun

Had gone berserk in queens

The area had been sealed off the kids

Sent home

From school

Fourteen people lying dead in a bar

They called the

Kicking mule

Oh they pleaded to your sanity

For the sake of

Those inside

Throw out your gun

Walk out slow just keep your

Hands held high

But they pumped you full of rifle shells as

You stepped out the door

Oh you danced in a death like a marionette

On the

Vengeance of the law

You've slept too long in silence

Mama said

Remember mama said

Ticking ticking

Crazy boy you'll only wind up with strange notions

In your head

Hear it

Hear it

Ticking ticking