Kill Someone

lyric sheet used by Bobby at McCabe's in LA - June 15, 2014

There’s a man out there talking speaking in tongues

Losing his hair, bleeding gums

Saying things about my sister, things about their son

If he don’t stop soon, I’m gonna kill someone

He’s got eyes of black and a hide of green

Throwing out lines like a submachine

Don’t know why or what he really means

Because he hasn’t been there and he hasn’t ever seen

He says he was a soldier, he told me that he served

But he never left the barracks only a reserve

Now he making off with another racist word

I think he lost the war, but won the purge

Take him down some, take him down some

Take him down some, take him down some

Now he’s fighting for justice and praying to God

While he misspells his name and keeps his fingers crossed

Everybody knows God’s been dead since 1914

You can’t bridge the gap for the underneath

He has four babies with four different girls

He has four houses, he has four worlds

But he has no money

Though he’s wearing someone’s pearls

And he’ll take from your pockets and fumble their curls

In his son I can’t see his father’s eyes

Because the boy is an angel, the boy doesn’t lie

Though he’s still one of his lowly four

His eyes may run, but his blood won’t pour

He was bred from the devil, bred just to take

Where they screw up their own in the belly of a lake

Who the hell takes a baby to a dead man’s wake

When the dead man’s a racist

The dead man’s a snake

I’m gonna wake up in the morning and get myself a gun

Not to fire at anybody just to keep him on the run

And then drive in the screw and rust it in the sun

Like he did to me, like he does to everyone