Gun Street Girl

[Mos_Chillin]

Falling james in the tahoe mud

Stick around to tell us all the tale

Well he fell in love with a gun street girl

And now he's dancing in the birmingham jail

Dancing in the birmingham jail

 

He took a hundred dollars off a slaughterhouse joe

Brought a brand new michigan twenty-gauge

He got all liquored up on that road house corn

Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette

A hole in the hood of a yellow corvette

 

He bought a second-hand nova from a cuban chinese

And dyed his hair in the bathroom of a texaco

With a pawnshop radio, quarter past four

He left for waukegan at the slamming of the door

Left for waukegan at the slamming of the door

 

I said john, john, he's long gone

Gone to indiana, ain't never coming home

I said john, john, he's long gone

Gone to indiana, ain't never coming home

 

He's sitting in a sycamore in st. john's wood

Soaking day-old bread in kerosene

Well he was blue as a robin's egg and brown as a hog

He's staying out of circulation 'til the dogs get tired

Out of circulation 'til the dogs get tired

 

Shadow fixed the toilet with an old trombone

He never get up in the morning on a saturday

Sitting by the erie with a bull-whipped dog

Telling everyone he saw, "they went that-a-way, boys"

Telling everyone he saw, "they went that-a-way"

 

Now the rain's like gravel on an old tin roof

And the burlington northern pulling out of the world

Now a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw

And a gun street girl was the cause of it all

A gun street girl was the cause of it all

 

Well he's riding in the shadow by the st. joe ridge

Hearing the click-clack tapping of a blind man's cane

He was pulling into baker on a new year's eve

One eye on a pistol and the other on the door

One eye on a pistol and the other on the door

 

Miss charlotte took her satchel down to king fish row

Smuggled in a brand new pair of alligator shoes

With her fireman's raincoat and her long yellow hair

Well they tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire

They tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire

 

I said john, john, he's long gone

Gone to indiana, ain't never coming home

I said john, john, he's long gone

Gone to indiana, ain't never coming home

 

Banging on the table with an old tin cup

Sing i'll never kiss a gun street girl again

Never kiss a gun street girl again

I'll never kiss a gun street girl again

 

I said john, john, he's long gone

Gone to indiana, ain't never coming home

I said john, john, he's long gone

Gone to indiana, ain't never coming home

[olyclimber]

I didn't take no shortcuts

I spent the money that I saved up

Aw mama runnin' out of luck

Well like my sister don't give a f**k

I wanna steal your innocence

To me my life it don't make sense

Your strange manners, I love you so

Why won't you wear your new trench coat

 

I should've worked much harder

I should have just not bothered

I never show up on weekdays

Somethin' that you learned yesterday

Drive you to work, you'll be on time

Your little problems, they're not yours they're mine

Come on listen to what I say

I've got some secrets that'll make you stay

I just want to turn you down

I just want a turn you around

You ain't never had nothin' I wanted but

I want it all, I just can't figure out

Nothin'

 

And all together it went well

We made pretend we were best friends

Then she said "Oh you're a freak"

They ordered me to make mistakes

Together again, like the beginnin'

It all works somehow in the end

The things we did the thing you hide

But for the record it's between you and I

 

I didn't take no shortcuts

I spent the money that I saved up

Aw mama runnin' out of luck

Well like my sister don't give a f**k

I wanna steal your innocence

To me my life it just don't make any sense

Your strange manners I love them so

Why won't you wear your new trench coat

I just want to misbehave

I just want to be your slave

You ain't never had nothin' I wanted but

I want it all, I just can't figure out

Nothin'

 

And all together it went well

We made pretend we were best friends

Then she said "Oh I can wait"

They ordered me to make mistakes

Together again, like the beginnin'

It all works somehow in the end

The things we did the thing you hide

But for the record it's between you and I