Running For My Life
from Discount Liquors by Skunkmello
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lyrics
Well I was sitting up at Coolhand Luke’s
Minding my own gaze
When up strolled Warren Beatty
And Miss Faye Dunaway
He calls out to the barkeep
A margarita for the dame
And pours himself a glass of salt
And he offers me the same
The barkeep yelled well Hollywood hell
You ain’t no Bonnie and Clyde
And they went reaching for their two by fours
I went running for my life
Well I was feeling kinda hungry
When the authors called the cops
They were looking everywhere for Baudelaire
I was looking for a pizza shop
The heat stormed in and stole my slice
Convinced it was for the cause
The black and blues convinced me too
Though I ain’t sure of what it was
Well it’s hard to tell how mozzarell
Could ever cause such strife
Till I was on the streets without my eats
And running for my life
Well I sat down to a deck of cards
And decided to play a game
It was me and Charlie Sheen and Mary Magdalene
And a dealer named John Wayne
The play was fast, the drink was hard
The talk was rather loud
They began to scream and cause a scene
They began to draw a crowd
Well she shot first and the crowd dispersed
The Duke went for his knife
I said to them, well shit you win
And went running for my life
Well I got in a tempest
With that bar-room gin-soaked queen
She wasn’t quite form Memphis
But she was certainly of the sceneAnd visions of Johanna
Just ain’t my cup of Joe
No, I prefer cabanas
And them roadhouse bungalows
But she said to me all sensibly
Boy, you could use a wife
And I said to her I wasn’t sure
And went running for my life
So now I’m on the doorstep
Of some downtown urban shrine
There used to be a future here
But now there’s only time
I don’t remember how or when
I happened to this place
But now it seems so hard to breath
I need some outer space
So remember me to all the rest
And don’t forget to write
Make the address to heading west
And running for my life
Minding my own gaze
When up strolled Warren Beatty
And Miss Faye Dunaway
He calls out to the barkeep
A margarita for the dame
And pours himself a glass of salt
And he offers me the same
The barkeep yelled well Hollywood hell
You ain’t no Bonnie and Clyde
And they went reaching for their two by fours
I went running for my life
Well I was feeling kinda hungry
When the authors called the cops
They were looking everywhere for Baudelaire
I was looking for a pizza shop
The heat stormed in and stole my slice
Convinced it was for the cause
The black and blues convinced me too
Though I ain’t sure of what it was
Well it’s hard to tell how mozzarell
Could ever cause such strife
Till I was on the streets without my eats
And running for my life
Well I sat down to a deck of cards
And decided to play a game
It was me and Charlie Sheen and Mary Magdalene
And a dealer named John Wayne
The play was fast, the drink was hard
The talk was rather loud
They began to scream and cause a scene
They began to draw a crowd
Well she shot first and the crowd dispersed
The Duke went for his knife
I said to them, well shit you win
And went running for my life
Well I got in a tempest
With that bar-room gin-soaked queen
She wasn’t quite form Memphis
But she was certainly of the sceneAnd visions of Johanna
Just ain’t my cup of Joe
No, I prefer cabanas
And them roadhouse bungalows
But she said to me all sensibly
Boy, you could use a wife
And I said to her I wasn’t sure
And went running for my life
So now I’m on the doorstep
Of some downtown urban shrine
There used to be a future here
But now there’s only time
I don’t remember how or when
I happened to this place
But now it seems so hard to breath
I need some outer space
So remember me to all the rest
And don’t forget to write
Make the address to heading west
And running for my life
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from Discount Liquors,
released October 9, 2019
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Skunkmello New York, New York
Sewer blues and gutter grooves for the barefooted and absent minded.
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Jun 2016 -
Sep 2014
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