《Dear Mrs》是Johnny Cash演唱的歌曲，收錄在《Man In Black》專輯中。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Dear Mrs
- 所屬專輯：Man In Black
- 歌曲原唱：Johnny Cash
- 歌曲語言：英語
歌曲歌詞
Dear Mrs though we've never met
I know very much about you
I know that you've got hair that shines
like the morning sun
You've got eyes that hold the blueness of the sky
And of the deepest sea on a clear day
And a smile that has a sparkle of a diamond
I know that because I've heard him
say those things about you
These're the thoughts and the words of a man
Who spent many heart breaking years behind prison walls
The father of your children
The man who worshipped the very ground that you walk on
He had a picture of you Mrs it was old and faded and torn
But you could tell at a glance
That he never exaggerated in his thoughts and visions
He never left his cell without first checking to see
If he had your picture with him
He was a young man when he first came to prison
And he talked a great deal about you
but as the years passed he talked less and less
And during his last year here I don't believe
he ever said a word to anybody
He had the appearance of a man much older than he really was
He walked with his head down and his shoulders saggin'
And the walk itself seemed to take a great deal of effort
He never received a letter or had a visitor while he was here in prison
But never did he stop looking and waitin'
Every day at mail call you could see him standing close to his bars
With the look of a child awaiting a reward
Even after the mailman had passed his cell
his pleading eyes would follow beggin'
As always he'd feel of his shirt pocket and then just stand there
Staring at the emptiness and as always
I could somehow feel the lumb in his throat
And the burning in his eyes you know Mrs
like just before you start to cry
Well I thought you might like to know
that they buried his body today
Just outside the prison walls
They buried him there
because nobody cared enough to claim his body
You know there was even a couple of old convicts
there that actually cried
No not because they cared for him
but for what he died from they cared for
Loneliness every prisoner knows loneliness
but some know it more than others
The man that they buried today had died many times
Every day he waited hopin' and prayin' for a letter or a card
Or just a note or anything to let him know
that somewhere out there
Somebody cared for him
That assurance never came and today he died Mrs
He died from loneliness starved for love a love
that nobody ever wanted
You see no man woman or child is immune
to the need of love or to be loved
No matter how terrible his crime might have been
The death he died from today was more inhuman
But his suffering is over now and
he's resting in a pauper's grave in a prison suit
And in his pocket is an old torn and faded picture of yes of you Mrs
