Lost In The Flood

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The ragamuffin gunner is returnin'
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 home like a hungry runaway
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He walks through town all alone
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He must be from the fort he hears 
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the high school girls say
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His countryside's burnin' with 
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wolfman fairies dressed in drag 
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for homicide
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The hit and run, plead sanctuary, 
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neath a holy stone they hide
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They're breakin' beams and crosses
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 with a spastic's reelin' perfection
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nuns run bald through Vatican 
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halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate
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 conception
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And everybody's wrecked on Main 
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Street from drinking unholy blood
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Sticker smiles sweet as Gunner 
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breathes deep, his ankles caked in
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 mud
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And I said Hey, gunner man, that's 
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quicksand, that's quicksand that
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 ain't mud
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Have you thrown your senses to 
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the war or did you lose them in 
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the flood?

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That pure American brother, 
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dull-eyed and empty-faced
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Races Sundays in Jersey in a 
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Chevy stock super eight
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He rides her low on the hip, on the
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 side he's got Bound For Glory
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In red, white and blue flash paint
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He leans on the hood telling 
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racing stories, the kids call him 
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Jimmy The Saint
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Well that blaze and noise boy, he's
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 gunnin' that bitch loaded to 
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blastin' point
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He rides head first into a 
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hurricane and disappears into a 
point
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And there's nothin' left but some 
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blood where the body fell
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That is, nothin' left that you 
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could sell
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Just junk all across the horizon, 
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a real highwayman's farewell
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And I said Hey kid, you think 
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that's oil? Man, that ain't oil 
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that's blood
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I wonder what he was thinking when
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 he hit that storm
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Or was he just lost in the flood?
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Eighth Avenue sailors in satin 
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shirts whisper in the air
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Some storefront incarnation of 
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Maria, she's puttin' on me the stare
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And Bronx's best apostle stands 
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with his hand on his own hardware
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Everything stops, you hear five, 
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quick shots, the cops come up for 
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air
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And now the whizz-bang gang from 
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uptown, they're shootin' up the 
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street
And that cat from the Bronx starts 
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lettin' loose
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but he gets blown right off his feet
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And some kid comes blastin' round 
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the corner but a cop puts him 
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right away
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He lays on the street holding his 
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leg screaming something in Spanish
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Still breathing when I walked away
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And somebody said Hey man did you 
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see that?
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His body hit the street with such a
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 beautiful thud
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I wonder what the dude was 
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sayin' or was he just lost in the 
flood?
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Hey man, did you see that, those 
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poor cats are sure messed up
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I wonder what they were getting 
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into, or were they all just lost
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 in the flood?

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