In Memoriam Lyrics - Bobby Darin

He's a ruthless opportunist 

And he motivates by greed 

He's just the way his father was 

And that we sure don't need 

So they all cried out, "Destroy him 

For he wants to see us drowned" 

They never understood him 

So they put him in the ground 

Now some had stood for hours 

And some sat on the grass 

Listening to their radios 

For where the train had passed 

And a crowd will get impatient 

As the clock hands turn around 

They never understood him 

So they put him in the ground 

They handed out some candles 

To the somber, weary crowd 

And told us not to light them 

Till our eyes beheld the shroud 

Not even at that moment 

Could there be tranquility 

I could feel them push and argue 

"Hey, sit down, I cannot see" 

They never understood him 

So they put him in the ground 

When the fathers closed their bibles 

And the family left the site 

The ropes and walls and hedges 

Kind of faded in the night 

Replaced by all the people 

Who made a prayerful sound 

They never understood him 

So they put him in the ground 

Some people say the eighth of June 

But the morning of the ninth 

The workmen gently lowered him 

By the beam of three work lights 

Easy, take it easy 

Set him down real slow 

He'd been on some rougher trips 

But he couldn't tell them so 

They never understood him 

So they put him in the ground 

Now no man has the answers 

And he was just a man 

And yet I can't help feelin' 

That he knew a better plan 

A shorter road to justice 

On the trip that's freedom bound 

But they never understood him 

So they put him in the ground