B. T. Nook - Topsy Goes Down Swinging

from Songs Of 2008-2012 by The Wiggly Tendrils

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They say that elephants are doomed to remember,
but I've forgotten far too much for that to be so
There is one memory I wish would come in clearer:
the sound of that man's skull as I crushed it with my toes

I could hear the subsonic pleas
of my comrades scattered elsewhere in the park
when the cigarette scorched my tongue
and I decided to tear that man apart

And they say, "Topsy needs to die.
There's no point in reformation, look at the demon in his eyes.
Topsy needs to die.
We'll fill him up with cyanide and then let Edison try."

I've been in chains since I was just a child
And now I'm helpless even bound by string
So that's why I will go quietly into that good night
But after dark there ain't no telling what terror I will bring

As they climb all over me attaching wires
I will tell you what is going through my mind
Before several thousand volts go through my mind
It's that I will find a way to have revenge
I will find to way to get my revenge
Oh yes I will most definitely get revenge

"Topsy needs to die.
There's no point in reformation, look at the demon in his eyes.
Topsy needs to die.
We'll fill him up with cyanide and then let Edison try."

Now I'm drinking with the devil starting fires in men's hearts
Waiting for this cruel world to just tear itself apart

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from Songs Of 2008-2012, released February 7, 2013
Words and Lyrics by B. T. Nook

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