The Easy Mark & The Old Maid-Bad Books

[00:00.000] 作词 : Kevin Devine [00:00.060] 作曲 : Kevin Devine [00:00.120]The Easy Mark &The Old Maid -Bad Books [00:00.720]Some men collapse at the racetrack [00:04.810]Their wrong and beat up their eyes black [00:08.750]Others wilt in casinos [00:12.800]Roll dice and piss away speedboats [00:16.630]Some dissolve into bar stools [00:20.680]Scratched off in boxes and playoff pools [00:24.760]I spent myself on a psychic [00:28.730]I lost my way and a friend said she would find it [00:33.290]Man we were wrong [00:37.350]Man we were wrong [00:42.240]I asked for the future [00:44.150]She only sang me a song [00:48.519]Some men they go make their own luck [00:52.859]Grow fat from feeding on lame ducks [00:56.789]The easy mark and the old maid [01:00.938]The invalid and the ingrate [01:04.878]Others wait for that high sign [01:08.697]Some holy hoax in the tree-line [01:12.766]Me I'm counting my canned food [01:16.816]Bunkered down waiting out our slingshot moods [01:21.15]But what if I'm wrong [01:25.454]What if I'm wrong [01:30.324]I'll open my doors up [01:32.564]People come sweep me along [02:11.586]Eyes are fixed and my palms are spread [02:16.725]Dissonance floats my shipwrecked head [02:20.945]God sleeps in the Gaza strip [02:24.785]And man alone's left alone to live with it [02:28.515]The coin-flip faith of the optimist [02:32.864]It's beginners luck in a sewing kit [02:36.754]What's to do when there is no fix [02:41.33]On the unflinching ambivalence [02:45.253]But you say that's wrong [02:49.453]Hopeless and wrong [02:54.63]We re-thread your needle [02:56.252]You say God play along