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The Devil In Bakersfield

from The Music Industry Tried To Kill Us by W.A.C.O.

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I never really wanted much to know about you this way
and I never really wanted much to know that much about you
little children who are bad go out into the desert at night

Made a track in the sand with a hand upon my shoulder
and the sunset made me weary and the hand it was a guiding hand
and it grabbed and shook me by the scruff of my unredeemable neck

I used to be a peaceable man but with my finger on the trigger up until I met the devil in Bakersfield

There are shadows that race through the aisles of the 7-11
and their eyes they shine like rats eyes under a flashlight
the sky it is an angry sky and the babies all are weeping in their doorways

Then the wind it quits and the dogs begin to answer
and the children they grow very still and crouch against their cars
because they know that there are bodies in the darkness

Oh a cloud it covered the moon and you walked up and I shook hands with the devil in Bakersfield

You are so precious and pure
you are a razorblades
you lie like a saint on trial
I can still smell you on my clothes

They score the earth and they gather in the dirt lot
and the earth it calls them home over the grapevine
and they do not like being beckoned and the scorpions come out from
under the stones

poison swirled around in my and I fell into bed
with the devil in Bakersfield

Come on over the grapevine
come on over the mountain

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from The Music Industry Tried To Kill Us, released September 25, 2017
words and music Steve Gregoropoulos
published Temple Bells/BMI
admin BMG
Originally available on the Angel Dust CD Darling Clementine remastered for this release

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