one legged cowboy
Words by Bryon Bowers
there’s a one legged cowboy
scooting’ down the road
tension on the daily
all work
no play
makes you old…
on a table
down the street
far in the past
fried pickles sit and teeter
At that hole in the wall
[Chorus]
I got mine jack
why don't you step on back
to where you came from
deport that kid’s parents
deport the kind
Look hard into your soul…
Arbitrary lines of hate
is all you will find…
Flies circling ‘around
your anger your only sound…
you musta lost all your love….
when you put on that white mask
and that icee glove…
past the shiny horns
on the bathroom stall
past the veneer of tattoos
and dirty writing on the wall
sits the lonely ones
in an earphone disconnected world…
we hurry by ourselves
folded into the road
bodies carried by the tide of hurry
in a time of angry directed fury…
[Chorus]
I got mine jack
why don't you step on back
to where you came from
deport that kid’s parents
deport the kind
Look hard into your soul…
Arbitrary lines of hate
is all you will find…
Flies circling ‘around
your anger your only sound…
you musta lost all your love….
when you put on that white mask
and that icee glove…
bad bunny fighting fascists with love
The new KKK wearing the same white mask
And icy racist gloves
spreading that hate
trying to kill that love …
if you don't speak up
they will trample on you
they only go after the weak
they make them afraid to speak
I will be your protector today
a teacher called a fake hotline
trying to deport a little kid’s mom and dad
she said they don't belong
I think she is wrong
we are all human
leave the damn kids alone!!!
stop worshiping your pedo king
stop the tide of hate
and let your better angels sing…
[Chorus]
I got mine jack
why don't you step on back
to where you came from
deport that kid’s parents
deport the kind
Look hard into your soul…
Arbitrary lines of hate
is all you will find…
Flies circling ‘around
your anger your only sound…
you musta lost all your love….
when you put on that white mask
and that icee glove…
let the people be kind and speak
make the hateful and angry weak
a democracy dies in silence
an empire rises in violence
let's make the world a better place
instead of following the whims and stokings
of an angry old face….
us and them lines fade with time
What does it matter
what side the line the child is born?
technology makes our world smaller
while people’s hearts grow smaller
like there’s a Grinch virus
without a moral conclusion…
spreading with the speed of fiber
on the withered hands of angry old men…
[Chorus]
I got mine jack
why don't you step on back
to where you came from
deport that kid’s parents
deport the kind
Look hard into your soul…
Arbitrary lines of hate
is all you will find…
Flies circling ‘around
your anger your only sound…
you musta lost all your love….
when you put on that white mask
and that icee glove…