[00:00.630]Dead Man's Boots - Sting
[00:12.540]You see these work boots in my hands,
[00:14.360]
[00:15.480]they'll probably fit ye now my son,
[00:17.160]
[00:18.600]Take them, they're a gift from me,
[00:20.910]
[00:21.470]why don't you try them on?
[00:23.160]
[00:24.410]It would do your old man good to see you
[00:27.590]walking in these boots one day,
[00:29.270]
[00:30.640]And take your place among
[00:32.510]the men who work upon the slipway.
[00:35.260]
[00:36.320]These dead man's boots,
[00:38.190]though they're old and curled,
[00:39.620]When a feller needs a job and a place in the world,
[00:42.560]And it's time for a man to put down roots,
[00:45.000]
[00:48.120]And walk to the river in his old man's boots.
[00:50.800]
[00:57.030]He said, "I'm nearly done and asking this,
[00:58.770]
[01:00.150]that ye do one final thing for me!
[01:02.010]
[01:03.320]You're barely but a sapling,
[01:04.760]
[01:05.950]and you think that you're a tree.
[01:07.570]
[01:09.190]If ye need a seed to prosper,
[01:11.070]
[01:12.000]ye must first put down some roots.
[01:13.560]
[01:15.180]Just one foot then the other
[01:17.060]
[01:18.120]in these dead man's boots."
[01:19.550]
[01:21.170]These dead man's boots know
[01:23.180]their way down the hill,
[01:24.410]They could walk there themselves,
[01:26.340]and they probably will.
[01:27.270]
[01:27.950]There's a place for ye there to sink your roots,
[01:30.450]
[01:33.070]And take a walk down the river in these dead man's boots.
[01:36.000]
[01:39.350]I said, "Why in the Hell would I do that?
[01:41.460]
[01:42.780]And why would I agree?"
[01:43.830]
[01:45.450]When his hand was all that I'd received,
[01:47.460]as far as I remember.
[01:50.210]
[01:51.700]It's not as if he'd spoiled me with
[01:53.760]
[01:54.440]his kindness up to then ye see.
[01:56.310]
[01:57.620]I'd a plan of me own and
[01:59.490]I'd quit this place when I came of age September.
[02:02.110]
[02:03.500]These dead man's boots know their way down the hill,
[02:06.800]They can walk there themselves, and they probably will.
[02:09.840]I'd plenty of choices, and plenty other routes,
[02:14.160]
[02:16.080]And he'd never see me walking in these dead man's boots.
[02:20.050]
[02:23.320]What was it made him think
[02:24.690]
[02:25.320]I'd be happy ending up like him?
[02:26.940]
[02:28.620]When he'd hardly got two halfpennies left,
[02:30.860]
[02:31.490]or a broken pot to piss in.
[02:33.490]
[02:34.800]He wanted this same thing for me, was that his final wish?
[02:39.230]
[02:40.790]He said, "What the hell are ye gonna do?"
[02:42.410]
[02:43.530]I said, "Anything but this!"
[02:45.040]
[02:46.650]These dead man's boots know their way down the hill,
[02:49.840]They can walk there themselves and they most likely will.
[02:52.710]But they won't walk with me
[02:54.080]'cos I'm off the other way,
[02:55.640]I've had it up to here, I'm gonna have my say.
[02:58.010]
[02:58.630]When all ye've got left is that cross on the wall?
[03:01.630]I want nothing from you,
[03:03.000]I want nothing at all.
[03:04.000]
[03:05.160]Not a pension, nor a pittance,
[03:07.040]when your whole life is through,
[03:08.410]Get this through your head,
[03:09.590]I'm nothing like you,
[03:10.660]
[03:11.340]I'm done with all the arguments,
[03:13.090]there'll be no more dispute,
[03:14.520]
[03:17.450]And ye'll die before ye see me in your dead man's boots.