Gravitas
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12/20/2007
by Tom Flannery
copyright 2007 (BMI)

They found my uncle dead on the floor
I got the call about half past four
went through some papers and they found my name
said sorry son must be a shame
nothing funny here so we're gonna go
if you need anything just let us know
so they left me with a dead man on the floor
his girth was blocking the bathroom door
I drank a 20 oz Pepsi on the way in the car
my piss coulda filled a cookie jar
tell me what's a poor boy to do?
had to move the body to get through

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Got drunk one night but that ain't all
from mixing things I still can't recall
self medicating the latest sting
she took away most everything
found her on her back legs in the air
with a rotary student named Pierre
that boy had style I'll give him that
wearing nothing but socks and a stetson hat
so I shimmied up the town's only flag pole
naked as a preacher's soul
but when I slid on down twas quite a view
them cleats'll tear a boy in two

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Look at 'em stern
and move real slow
and you'll never have to tell 'em
where you're gonna go
Look at 'em stern
and move real slow
and you'll never have to tell 'em
where you're gonna go

Woke up one morning next to a girl
I met hours before on the tilt-a-whirl
Richard Petty tattoo on her chest
said she was thrown out of the mid-west
she looked much better at the carnival
through whiskey haze and Paul Mall's
but the sun comes up baby that's a fact
and her boyfriend staring through the window crack
heard the tobacco chaw and the rifle cock
at times like this a man takes stock
a little hallelujah can I get an amen
straight into the hands of the born again's

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I got bored one time and went off to war
couldn't get a job so I joined the corps
they wanted me bad at least that's what they said
I learned to kill and to make a bed
them sheets as tight as Dot McPhee
3 meals a day and an enemy
but on my first day at the front
I got blown to pieces now I wear a shunt
doc said "son you'll never be the same"
I said "doc ain't that a goddamn shame....
on the edge of making my daddy proud
now I'm stuck here in this cloud"

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Gravitas baby Gravitas baby Gravitas baby Gravitas

Look at 'em stern
and move real slow
and you'll never have to tell 'em
where you're gonna go
Look at 'em stern
and move real slow
and you'll never have to tell 'em
where you're gonna go
where you're gonna go

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Gravitas baby Gravitas baby Gravitas baby Gravitas