| I am a handmade handgun
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| Operated by paper crooks,
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| Loaded up with bullets of blank pages torn from your little black book.
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| You can call me all your favorites,
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| Oh, I love those dirty looks.
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| You know I’ll be drunk and waiting on the steps of St. Anthony’s church.
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| Knuckle-blood stains the doorframe, frustration both ways
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| You see me knock, I see you gaze through the peeker
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| Watch me sneak far away
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| As I push my pleas through the shades.
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| I’m out of sight, for I know violence is nine cents from a dime
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| I spent your mind time stop for us (caught up)
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| Cost of a heart accosted, don’t blink
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| Nothin’s so strangled like us
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| Nothin' deranged like that love
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| Nothin' explains the way I played like new things don’t break
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| Live under your ribs, a toybox, an Apple plugin,
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| Tuned to tune out, give out what’s yours,
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| Like when in doubt, play the mouse in the mouth like
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| Please don’t let me die.
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| But you know me, I could never lay you down to sleep.
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| Take a knee, spillin' salt and shame upon your pretty feet.
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| With a head full of bourbon, I do this,
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| Though I love you and I think you hurt me on purpose…
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| I am a handmade handgun
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| Operated by paper crooks,
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| Loaded up with bullets of blank pages torn from your little black book.
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| You can call me all your favorites,
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| Oh, I love those dirty looks.
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| You know I’ll be drunk and waiting on the steps of St. Anthony’s church.
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| I thought of everything,
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| Even your paper ring,
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| The organs playin' our song,
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| Playin' our song, so sing along.
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| P.O.S.:
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| Hail to the graces, the lord is with you.
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| A blessing for the souls that walk about
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| Walk among you till this hour of death,
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| Walk among you till this hour of death.
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| Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee;
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| Blessed art thou among men and women,
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| And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
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| Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
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| Now and at the hour of our death.
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| Amen.
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| You come to find me, hopelessly
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| Wrapped around the gun, staring at the sun.
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| Don’t you fuckin' lie to me,
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| G’head and try it, see, God’s witness,
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| Pick a sense and listens, hidden,
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| Layin' down behind a line of ivy
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| He can hand you pure moments
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| Or quit you from every sense you got,
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| Protect you with the spectacles, testicles, wallet watch,
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| But the devil keeps an open shop
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| He pays his bills and fills his pots
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| Thanks to the single sable sheep, hidden in that hollow flock
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| It’s a classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t
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| And I’ll be damned if I end up playing Job with God’s loving hand on my throat
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| You could swear I traced a trail of Wormwood slipping from the Empyrean,
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| But Providence, just a myth if I aim to let my trigger prey
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| But you know me, I could never lay you down to sleep
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| I’m a prostrate paper tiger supplicating at your pretty feet
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| My mouth may run on a loaded gun and a belly full of bourbon
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| I only do this 'cause I love ya; |
| I know you’d never hurt me on purpose.
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| I am a handmade handgun
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| Operated by paper crooks,
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| Loaded up with bullets of blank pages torn from your little black book.
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| You can call me all your favorites,
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| Oh, I love those dirty looks.
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| You know I’ll be drunk and waiting on the steps of St. Anthony’s church.
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| I thought of everything,
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| Even your paper ring,
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| The organs playin' our song,
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| Playin' our song, so sing along.
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| I thought of everything,
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| Even your paper ring,
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| The organs playin' our song,
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| Playin' our song, so sing along |