Gumball Machine

Words by Bryon Bowers

Gumballs and Blood… On the Barn Room Floor… Red Canned tomatoes… Lining every wall… Saw you climbing Then I Heard you Fall… My Heart was pumping Your Eyes wide open… Ran So Hard… Bloody Feet never touched the floor… [Chorus] Blood on the Floor Attacked by a hinge On the barn room door Jumping over fences Leaping over ditches That gumball's gonna give you stitches Shiny Gumball machine Sitting' at the top of the barn room stairs Pennies in our pockets Sneaking like ninjas Get those gum balls Put em in our mouth Chew 'em for a minute Then spit 'em out… Then onto the next one Rinse repeat… [Chorus] You were superman Climbing on the door That door hinge Your kryptonite When you fell You didn't fall right... Blood was flowing From your knee Adrenaline pumping Through me My inner brain Taking the reins I started running… Jumping Barbed Wire Fences… In single bounds.. Bird in my mouth I was a Royal.. Hunting hound [Chorus] They sewed you up Gumballs and all We were Supermen Playing with kryptonite Toys… Two wild and wandering Boys… Throwing shotgun shells Into Fire barrels Playing with Giant Snapping Turtles and Copperhead Snakes Dancing Barefoot In the rain Damn, did we feel alive! It's a wonder we survived! [Chorus]

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