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GUNFIGHTER

by The Heart Pills

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1.
Concrete 04:14
Well you were poppin' paint pills While I was chewin' concrete The Sheriff's killing bus drivers Gone crazy in this hell's heat The architects are screaming At every building they meet The covers are all gone Keep crying out with cold feet The sheriff danced at gun point While you just laughed and grinned The guitar on the juke box Was tearing threw my skin The Police at the front door were bangin' their way in And your dress Was paper thin And if they all burn then where will I be? If Christ comes for you, then who's gonna save me? I saw Elvis last night with Peter Lorre They put a show on for free Well Charlie Chugs Gasoline He says it doesn't taste right He misses all the lead he says Anybody got a light? He says he misses Mary too Morbid as a gun Dark and sleek and clean She is my only one
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Cowboy 02:49
She calls herself a cowboy She’s in love with racists She’s got a tramp stamp of a map of the confederacy She’s in love with Tony An Italian Cowboy Said he was in Spaghetti Westerns back in ’73 He says he knows Clint Eastwood She really believes him she says I really believe in anything you say to me She says please Tony kiss me! Like you did in that one scene Like you did with that one girl ... And he says babe ya know I love you Well I told you so at least twice But I only feel in the movies That I watch everynight And I'll never kiss you like that Without stage lights And the shot cropped in tight He calls himself a scientist He's in love with science His metric mind is made of glass and fire He thinks he can find god if He calibrates the right lenses in a sterile environment With optimum temperature Through a microscope Or a telescope Or a stethoscope Or a Kaleidoscope Or through Mom's hope Or through my dope Or through the Pope Nope Nope Nope
3.
Mississippi John was a good man They all tipped their hats when he rolled in He did everything that he should man He swore he’d never let the devil win He was out one night he got a sun tan He swore to god the moon was after him He shouted to the sky “I’m a good man” Thought God was coming for all dirty sin Yeah Christ is coming The green men said “we ain’t ghosts Bill” One said “but that’s not Bill, this ones John" They turned around to see where ol' Billy went but he killed the operator and was long long gone Well the little green men scratched their heads and said, "You are good, but he was mean." One of them looked pretty upset One of them gestured obscene! Johnny wondered what the hell they wanted they sucked his body into silver disc they were not content with the outsides they needed an inside frisk! They wanted to know what made a good man smile There were rumors about man’s heart They wondered what made Billy Crocodile How so mean could be so smart? Well bill’s trail was still hot when he beamed back and they didn’t cut him up too bad They wanted to find out what made us all tick but in the end they were Glad they never had
4.
Well my cousin got caught getting diddled by a fiddler Who was paying her some money just to sit on his knee Lydia we called her ‘til she vanished from the alter, On the day she was to wed the holy trinity Oh god dear lord! Where could she be? Plucking all the chickens, putting out for free She took the last apple off the last apple tree The devil loved her more than he ever loved Eve She was a sad case you could it in her face her daddy couldn’t keep her from the leather and lace She loved a man of cards only scorn for the lords, Her boys needed aces and laces to get hard Oh god dear shit lord where could she be? Pluckin all the chickens, drinkin China Tea She took the last apple off the last apple tree, The devil loves her more than he ever loved Eve Well I like nice things Wind up birds that sing And diamond rings Well my dreams came true and I finally got my wish She gave it to me gently, yeah it started with a kiss Just a year later, well we both got syphilis And we died holdin’ aces floatin down the ol’ Miss Oh god dear lord what a time she had with me floatin on a card barge, drifting out to sea Old Saint Peter let her in but didn’t let me Well Hell’s a lot colder than I thought that it would be I said the Devil loves her more that he ever loved eve
5.
Cabaret Lady 02:41
Leave your wife with scorn on her face Come on down to Cindy-Lou's Place We've the cards booze and refer Loose lipped ladies, special feature! Go right home and get the money Behind door 1's a tasseled honey We've got the cards we've got the whiskey Throw some cash if you're feelin' frisky! Well One Tit Tina needs a tissue First time's free, she's standard issue Hold your drink, don't catch a mickey Fingers here are pretty sticky!
6.
Mermaid Song 04:57
Well I once loved a mermaid she wouldn't stay with me She gave up legs, and cigarettes and dove into the sea And we’re all by ourself Once again I found a normal lady With no fins or gills for what she lacked in conscience She  made up for in thrills Well I finally found somebody We got along just right With pocket prayers And cowboy dares And TV glow at night She used to say she loved me, and I said I loved her too I think that we were happy, I think she’d say so too But one of us got sick And then one of us died A stranger wipes my wrinkled ass And rolls me to my side Well ya know, I think I can find it In this electric bed I can see you dancing here with me the teenage movie in my head
7.
Gunfighter 04:24
I shot a man, I shot him dead I put a bullet in his head I pulled the trigger as he fled I shot a man, I shot him dead I loved a man and we were wed I brought him back into my bed He lay with me, the sheets turned red I loved a man and we were wed I woke at Reveille With only memories The sound of revelry Broke my Reverie I found that man’s black thoroughbred Outside a house most spirited He’d chosen looser girls instead I stole my man’s black thoroughbred It was demon steed my gun was soon with me I hardly heard them plead That man and the woman on his knee Good by darling, good by my dear I loved a man and we were wed I found him in another’s bed I pulled the trigger as he fled I shot my man, I shot him dead.
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Western Song 05:52
Darling, won't you kiss me? Once for good luck So the the sand won't kiss my knees Darlin' I will miss thee If the street stones Drink the red life out of me Well Black Shot Billy Shot my Pappy and he thinks that he's free forever be Well I've been aiming At rotten figs and apples And his head looks ripe to me He'll be on the next train the following Monday and the night stage Will bring him right to me I see the sunset cryin' The pale moon is sighing As he climbs up with cosmic apathy Well I shot him ten times now In the last week And it seems He's a little bit sore at me ENTER: Black Shot Billy I ran to the street Where we were to meet Followed the red trail that lead me 'round the store It stopped abruptly And I ran straight home And he was lying Stretched out to my door Though I never loved him I forced a tear to my eye I knew he would die At only twenty three Well years gone by now And I'm alone somehow There ain't nobody Having gunfights over me.

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released February 9, 2014

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