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This song is about a man who made some very bad life choices and ended up paying for it.

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Payback

I'm still shaking from my last fix
Soaked in sweat and rage
Trapped within my thoughts and room
A prison inside a cage
Wounded and strung out
With nothing left to loose
And people who have debts to pay
You borrow shit piss it away
Are heading for a judgment day
If that's the path you choose

Think i took too many right turns
'Till I had nothing left
My woman and my children gone
Broken and bereft
I picked the shattered pieces up
And buried them in ice
But I could not reassemble them
My hands would shake and tremble them
You held me still I remember when
When settled on a price

And now it's time for payback
I'm calling in the loans
And kicking down your front door
With names and sticks and stones
It's too late to beg for mercy
It's too late to cry for help
When the debts payed out
There can be no doubt
That you brought this on yourself

Well we we had one thing in common
I guess that was the point
And we followed that black dog around
From joint to stinking joint
I had nothing to give you
But you took it all the same
And then left me here to stew and steam
To text and curse and spit and scream
You left me here to plot and scheme
And figure out the game

I organised the action
So as not to seem suspect
I wanted people I could trust
But not need to respect
I gave them clear instructions
And a list of my demands
They threatened and they wounded
But left with empty hands

I'm still shaking from the judgement
And the years that lay ahead
Trapped within my thoughts and cell
A prison inside my head
I pointed out the markers
Each and every sign
A family that was torn apart
An older brother lithe and smart
A broken mind a broken heart
But in the end the fault was mine

And now it's time for payback
The loans have been called in
Eyes and teeth have been exchanged
And summaries begin
It's too late to beg for mercy
It's too late to cry for help
When the debts payed out
There can be no doubt
That I brought this on myself

© JAMESONGS 2019

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from The Battle for Wilson Street, released August 8, 2020
JAMES WAKELING: VOCAL, GUITAR

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