[Intro] Bm  E

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If you wanna make a move then you better come
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In it's just the ability to reason that wears so thin
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Living and dying and the stories that are true
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Secret to a good life's knowing when you're throught

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   Black coat white shoes black hat      
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   Cadillac yeah the boy is a time bomb  

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Well he's back in the hole where they got
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Him living like a rat but he's smarter than
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That nine lives like a cat
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Fifteen years old they take him to

The  youth autority
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Home first thing you learn
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You got to make it in this world alone

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   Black coat white shoes black hat      
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   Cadillac yeah the boy is a time bomb  

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Now he has gotten out he has
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Gotten free he gotta go got a car
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He's twenty-one years old he's running
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Numbers from the bar his pager's beeping
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He's getting deep in whatever he can move
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On and you know that kid is a creeping in

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   Black coat white shoes black hat      
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   Cadillac yeah the boy is a time bomb  

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   The boy is a time bomb

[Solo] Bm  E 
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Tears come from the razor that's been
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Tattooed below his eye

His mother cries she knows that
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He is strong enough to
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Die he's rolling in the cadillac

It's midnight sunroof is
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Down three shots ring
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Out the hero is dead

The new king is crowned

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   Black coat white shoes black hat      
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   Cadillac yeah the boy is a time bomb  

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   Oh time bomb