
Date of issue: 31.12.2011
Record label: Universal Music
Song language: English
Rochester |
I was born in Rochester |
To a bookmaking man |
Had a fake cigar shop |
With the games on in the back |
See them coming and going |
Let them ride on thoroughbreds |
Police chief from Town Hall wondering what was the spread |
I carried rich mens bag through the brow |
Trying to chase down a little white ball |
I learned that any soft place wasn’t good for me at all |
Daddy came home fired up looking for some sort of release |
He beat the hell out of Timmy, Timmy beat the hell out of me |
I would hop the fence out to this government field |
Run 'til there was nothing more to feel |
Lying there watching planes just disappear |
Knowing one day I’m gonna fly on out of here |
Well that same police chief came knockin' my first freshman day |
Put my daddy in handcuffs and his picture on the front page |
Took every one of his suits and all my dignity |
Walk the halls around the court waiting for any punk to set me free |
I would hop the fence out to this government field |
Run 'til there was nothing more to feel |
Lying there watching planes just disappear |
Knowing one day I’m gonna fly on out of here |
Well I got that call to Vietnam just like everyone else I knew |
So scared of the hand grenades threw them farther than any other troop |
Came home like an iron fist and Timmy tried to take my keys |
Ripped open his front pocket that was the last time he touched me Moved to an island out west up to Breckinridge |
Met a mermaid on a glass boat and she promised me some kids |
Bought a house in Oregon where you could touch both of the walls |
Had a son named Benjamin and I was so scared of it all |
Benjamin walked in the front room where I was cutting up my hash |
Looked into those deep blue eyes wondering why I’ve been so mad |
Flushed a quarter pound down the drain praying for the mercy to confess |
Trying to rip the boy from Rochester right of my chest |
We’re gonna walk right out into this heavenly field |
Run like there was no more time to steal |
My three boys in the grace of God I feel |
Knowing one day you’re gonna take me out of here |
Knowing one day you’re gonna take me out of here |
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