Bendin` The Rules Lyrics

Bendin` The Rules lyrics

(alexander/naydock/badlees)

 

 Pity my brother

 For how he's suffered me

 Through nameless towns

 And cold prairie

 For restless women

 At the end of the line

 Who tendered checks for

 A promise divine

 

 Cash as quick as "vegas"

 Like "vegas" in a dream

 I work this charismatic ruse

 For my brother's peace and being

 Sittin' tight in moline

 The money on the bed

 With every memory sharp to me

 And the fear of times ahead

 

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 Maybe the good book

 Came from the divine

 Or maybe it was written

 Just to keep us in line

 The mistakes of the sages

 Make the rules for the fools

 So father forgive me

 For bendin' the rules....

 

 Well, mister he improved some

 With the money i scammed

 Some days his light shines as bright

 As the light of the promised land

 Death was often something

 We freely would discuss

 When he was ten and i was twelve

 And the spectre would often brush

 

 In and out of treatments

 Since twenty months of age

 At eighteen the insurance

 No longer would maintain

 And my old man in the kitchen

 His hands upon his face

 Did weep to shake his very soul

 In the darkness of this place

 

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 Hold me saint christopher

 Over every county line

 Overlook my blasphemy

 For the sake of buying time

 Grant him days of laughter

 Bestow me clemency

 He sleeps soft in the back seat

 His freedom from ordeal

 

 To every ruddy youngster

 Off free in summer's fields

 And every young lass poised to claim

 Her share of what love yields

 To all the grieving angels

 And the litany of saints

 I am my brother's keeper

 To what end decides the fates

 

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