| Lyrics: | The ragamuffiin gunner is returnin' home like a hungry runaway
He walks through town all
alone
He must be from the fort he hears the high school girls say
His countryside's burnin'
with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide
The hit and run, plead sanctuary, 'neath a
holy stone they hide
They're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin'
perfection
nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception
And
everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood
Sticker smiles sweet as gunner
breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud
And I said, "Hey, gunner man, that's quicksand, that's
quicksand that ain't mud
Have you thrown your senses to the war or did you lose them in the
flood ?"
That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced
races Sundays in Jersey
in a Chevy stock super eight
He rides 'er low on the hip, on the side he's got Bound For Glory
in red, white and blue flash paint.
He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call
him Jimmy The Saint
Well that blaze and noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin'
point
He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point
And there's nothin'
left but some blood where the body fell
That is, nothin' left that you could sell
just junk
all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell
And I said "Hey kid, you think that's oil ?
Man, that ain't oil that's blood."
I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm
or
was he just lost in the flood ?
Eighth Avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in the
air
Some storefront incarnation of Maria, she's puttin' on me the stare
and Bronx's best
apostle stands with his hand on his own hardware |
