Slinger from DISTANT by Stripmall Ballads

I was her first / should’ve never been / guess it was a mistake / the way I let her in
But I didn’t tell her lies / to make her want me more / she wants me anyway / from years before
When I was just a kid / a slinger on the street / they knew what Jimmy did / the guy you wanna meet
Slinger, drug slinger / Slinger, oh my slinger

A town bound to fail / another hard-luck tale / she’s too young for shame / she’ll never be the same
I knew she had a man / wasn’t my concern / she was a river girl / he was too good for her
Jesus on the prowl / he bought her everything / he wants a young girl now / and he makes me sick

I did it anyway / I knew I was her only chance / to know something more than circumstance
Then it all went down / a man died that night / it was self-defense / but that don’t make it right
I don’t have no regrets / you get what you deserve / but I can’t forget / I left her on the curb /
After what she saw / begging me to take her / far from Wichita / the place I knew would break her
Slinger, gun slinger / Slinger, drug slinger / Slinger, oh my slinger

So I did what I did / I ain’t made for prison / they’d lock me up for it / they’d lock me up for living / who wears a bad luck charm? / a slinger on the streets / I didn’t mean no harm / the guy you wanna meet

(by Morris Paul Lippens)

• Folk
• folk-core
• folk-folk
• folk-rock
• indie-folk
• psychedelic-folk
• Maryland