Lost In The Flood

Intro: Em

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The ragamuffin gunner is 
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returnin' 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 
                 Em                
Street from drinking unholy blood
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Sticker smiles sweet as gunner 
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breathes deep, his ankles caked in
     Em
 mud
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And I said "Hey gunner man that's 
   Em               C          D
quicksand, that's quicksand that 
ain't
Em
mud
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Have you thrown your senses to 
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the war or did you lose them in the 
flood?" ...
.... Em  Am D

Additional Lyrics:
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That pure American brother, 
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dull-eyed and empty-faced
Continúa después del anuncio
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Races Sundays in Jersey in a 
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Chevy stock super eight
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He rides `er low on the hip, on the
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 side he's got Bound For Glory in 
  Em
red,
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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 
Jimmy The
    Em
Saint
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Well the blaze and noise boy, he's 
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gunnin' that bitch loaded to 
blastin'
    Em
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
         Em                        
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 he said "Hey kid, you think 
         Em        C          D
that's oil? Man, that ain't oil 
that's
Em
blood"

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I wonder what he was thinking when
    Em
 he hit that storm
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Or was he just lost in the flood?

Am   D   D   Am   Em

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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 
       Em                  Bm
with his hand on his own hard ware
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Everything stops, you hear five, 
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quick shots, the cops come up for 
   Em
air
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And now the whiz-bang gang from 
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uptown, they're shootin' up the 
   Em
street
And that cat from the Bronx starts 
G
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
     Em
 see that?
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His body hit the street with such a
 D         Em
 beautiful thud"
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I wonder what the dude was 
Em   C           D           Em
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 gettin' 
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into, or were they just lost in 
    Em
the flood?