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SON OF A GUN

from WRACK &RUIN (2017) by Joey Carbo

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SON OF A GUN
{Carbo}
Joey- guitars, bass, vocals, Ebow guitar, percussion

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He woke up with the red ass. We tippy-toed every step we took.
“You don’t know where you shit last”. And that little house trailer shook.
He said, ‘don’t let nothin’ go past and close your open book.'
"It’s all on his dead ass and we’re both off the hook."

Marshall was not normal; he was not one of us.
I sat with the sluts and addicts and he rode the other bus.
Be he followed all the way down and they blowed us till it sucked.
I still ain’t seen my way ‘round the brains or the guts.

“I don’t care what you want, I know what you need.
I was there when you woke up, I’ll be there when you bleed."

JW was my best friend and I see now how it looked
to the police and my old man, this hare-lipped, crazy crook.
I was taught to keep my head down; Winston didn’t raise no fuckin’ punk.
“Don’t worry ‘bout what goes ‘round,” and his head fell with a clunk.

“This bastard will not listen to reason or to me!”
When I got home he’d stabbed him, was headed for the Salton Sea.

And then the Sheriff came ‘round, looking for the man Winston took.
“I saw him last with Marshall and that little, hare-lipped crook.”

Now, I think about it often and when I get some violent itch.
I was born into a coffin, a son of a gun and a son of a bitch.

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from WRACK &RUIN (2017), released April 2, 2017
SON OF A GUN
{Carbo}
Joey- guitars, bass, vocals, Ebow guitar, percussion

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Joey Carbo Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Joey Carbo's solo work as well as the albums he made with both his bands -
"Yes, it's dark. But Carbo isn't intending to scare folks away from darkness, I don't think he ever is -- he's no stranger to writing songs about hopelessness and anger. He's done it with precision here, communicating specific turns of emotion, sans generalization." -C.M. Hall ... more

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