Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Death By Misadventure, artist - John Hiatt. Album song Riding With The King, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 31.12.1982
Record label: Geffen
Song language: English
Death By Misadventure |
Well, Harry had a good job working for the Secret Service |
He had a wife and kids at home who made him awful nervous |
He’d never done a damn thing you could call experimental |
And he had this aching feeling that his life was accidental |
So one day he burned his pinstripe suit and his leather shoulder holster |
He snapped a Polaroid and made a giant wanted poster |
He took it to the print shop and ordered up a thousand flyers |
And then he walked next door to the laundromat and blew his brains out in the |
drier |
And the tag on his toe read: Death by misadventure |
Ain’t that some way to go? |
Death by misadventure |
Now Harry’s wife Estella took this matter rather lightly |
She could have cried and cried but then her looks might come unsightly |
So she thought about her wardrobe and how much it was outdated |
And how this trumped up family thing was vastly overrated |
Her kids both turned against her and they took to drugs and stealing |
Some junkie killed 'em both for two dime bags that they was dealing |
And sitting home alone disgusted by it all |
She blew the sole survivor off with ninety Nembutals |
And the tag on her toe read: Death by misadventure |
Ain’t that some way to go? |
Death by misadventure |
So be careful how you choose your path and who you pick to go with |
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death |
Well some folks get confused and never quite know how they’re going |
When you’re laid out on that slab we’re all the worse for knowing |
That the tag on your toe reads: Death by misadventure |
What a silly way to go. |
Death by misadventure |
Ain’t that some way to go? |
Death by misadventure |
Such a silly way to go. |
Death by misadventure |
I’m talking 'bout death by misadventure |
Oh, death by misadventure |
Oh, death by misadventure |
(Oh, death by misadventure) |