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…

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