[00:00:00] The Idiot - Seth Staton Watkins
[00:00:00] Composed by：Stan Rogers
[00:00:00] I often take these night shift walks
[00:03:00] When the foreman\'s not around
[00:06:00] I turn my back on the cooling stacks
[00:09:00] And make for open ground
[00:13:00] Far out beyond the tank-farm fence
[00:16:00] Where the gas flare makes no sound
[00:19:00] I forget the stink and I always think
[00:23:00] Back to that Eastern town
[00:26:00] I remember back six years ago
[00:30:00] This western life I chose
[00:33:00] And every day the news would say
[00:36:00] Some factory\'s going to close
[00:39:00] Well I could have stayed to take the dole
[00:43:00] But I\'m not one of those
[00:46:00] I take nothing free and that makes me
[00:49:00] An idiot I suppose
[00:52:00] So I bid farewell to the Eastern town
[00:56:00] I never more will see
[00:59:00] But work I must so I eat this dust
[01:02:00] And breathe refinery
[01:05:00] Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams
[01:09:00] And I don\'t like cowboy clothes
[01:12:00] But I like being free and that makes me
[01:15:00] An idiot I suppose
[01:19:00] So come all you fine young fellows
[01:21:00] Who\'ve been beaten to the ground
[01:25:00] This western life\'s no paradise
[01:28:00] But it\'s better than lying down
[01:31:00] Oh the streets aren\'t clean and there\'s nothing green
[01:35:00] And the hills are dirty brown
[01:38:00] But the government dole will rot your soul
[01:41:00] Back there in your home town
[01:44:00] So I bid farewell to the Eastern town
[01:48:00] I never more will see
[01:51:00] There\'s self-respect and a steady cheque
[01:54:00] In this refinery
[01:57:00] Oh you will miss the green
[01:59:00] And the woods and streams
[02:01:00] And the dust will fill your nose
[02:04:00] But you\'ll be free and that makes me
[02:07:00] An idiot I suppose
[02:13:00] This are the word\'s I tell myself
[02:16:00] When I miss my old home town
[02:20:00] I tell myself that I\'m doing right
[02:23:00] By turning not well fell town
[02:27:00] But now I see for you and me
[02:31:00] That I want those word\'s on streams
[02:34:00] For I oh my life to this worker\'s strip
[02:38:00] Why can\'t I just be free