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Thought the D​.​A. Said I'd Walk

from IMPERIALISM or Dead Drunk for the Fatherland by Wunderbar!

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2. Thought the D.A. Said I'd Walk (But That Wasn't The Plan)
Well, I'm the kind of guy
Who winds up in the head
Ear half bitten off
and all around me going red
G-Men swarming everywhere
Guess I'm the Son of Man
Thought the D.A. said I'd walk
But that wasn't the plan
At the bottom of a highball
There's a sea of human bone
Where palm trees sway
All roads lead to me
It's etched in stone

So hand that boy another Coca Cola
Life's no fun
But hey, it ain't so miserable
A whole ocean of Coke
Enough to drown in
You want to hang yourself
You'll need a bigger piece of rope

Well, I'm the kind of guy
Who ends up in the mud
Dodging cans of Burma Shave
All this village wants is blood
Somewhere in the bush
They're trading dope for cuckoo clocks
While a thousand pounds of
Lie rotting on the docks
When I'm dead
A shrunken head
Bone through the nose
I'll know
In some perfect world
Judas lived to run a tackle shop in Rome

You and whose army
Fought over the spoils
When my kingdom comes
Where customers' king
With God in his Heaven and Life Magazine
The telephone rings
Uncle Sam ordering a shitload of trouble for me

Spoken: Guy gets into my cab and wants me to drive him to his girlfriend's
apartment.
Somewhere in the Mission.
On the way there he details his plans to reclaim the Throne of the Canadian Monarchy.
Says that the Parliament and the Prime Minister are anti-royalist thugs.
Says he and his court have been forced to live in exile for years.
Somewhere in the Mission.
He tells me intricate schemes to topple the Canadian Government.
Plots. Intrigues. Scandals. Cloak and dagger stuff.
His battle plans include cavalry, fixed-wing aircraft, and thousands of Eskimos paddling canoes.
Finally,
Says when the people see that their beloved King is still alive, they will
shrug off democracy.
I turn around and look at him.
His eyes are wet and his lips are glistening a little too much.
Great, I thought. Busiest night of the week and I have to pick up the King of Canada.

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from IMPERIALISM or Dead Drunk for the Fatherland, released May 10, 2004

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