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i bang a drum so i don't have to work
i'm a sonuva gun, i'm sort of a jerk
i didn't mean to be such a meanie to you
i just thought you'd understand, cos i thought you knew
that i didn't like the way you'd talk to me
i didn't like the way you'd boss me around so much
i know you loved me but i just can't take that stuff

i wish someone would kindly just explain the whole deal to me
i thought i'd figure it out eventually
why some people gotta drag these heavy chains through the smoke
and everybody else gets a smile and a coke
i stepped out just for a minute, had to look for my faces
i never found my way back into your good graces
but that was tonight, and tomorrow's today
i don't know what i just said and think i like it that way

but i don't like thinking bout the way i was
i'd like put it behind me, i'd like to cover it up
so i jump under the covers and wash away my sins
but those stains are getting thicker and that remedy wears me thin
so i take a blade to my long black hair
and my baby's having nightmares bout girls i ain't never touched
i know she loves me but i just can't take that stuff

i was a prince of the pavement for a year or two
and then the shine shimmied off and the shit shone through
you were riding your bike, you were saying your prayers
we were minding our own business, we were caught unawares

now i'm living out west where there ain't no surprises
still picking out the splinters from between my eyes
got a road for the wheels, a fire for the dark
i got the moon, i got the moon, i got the moon for a heart

i'd do anything you've heard of just to lay it down neat
i'd be your open umbrella, i'd be the back of your beat
but i'm broke and misbegotten and i'm missing some teeth
i'm gumming up what's left of all the things i believed
when i was young and full fire, not just your voodoo doll
oh yeah you pour it on real thick but i'm gonna have to call your bluff
you're just a meanie when you're trying to give me all your love

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from Mean Spirit, released November 11, 2014

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The Whiskey Priest Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Whiskey Priest is song-writer Seth Woods. He sings about horses, oceans, trains, mountains, deities, hands, science fiction, sex, vegetation, drinking games, deserts, depression, party people, seagulls, death, monks, memory, autumn, driving, and breakfast. He has never met a drum machine he didn't like. ... more

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