Time Bomb

Album: ...And Out Come The Wolves (1995)
Charted: 56
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  • If you want to make the move then you better come in
    It's just the ability to reason that wears so thin
    Living and dying and the stories that are true
    Secrets to a good life is knowing when you're through

    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb
    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb

    He's back in the hole where they got him living
    Like a rat but he's smarter than that nine lives
    Like a cat take him to the youth authority home
    First thing you learn is that you got to make it in this world alone

    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb
    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb

    Now he's gotten out he's gotten free he's gotta go, gotta car
    He's twenty one years old he's runnin' from the bar
    His pager's beepin' he's got in deep in
    Whatever he can move on in you know that kid's a creepin'

    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb
    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac
    The boy's a time bomb

    Yeah, the boy's a time bomb

    In tears come from the razor that's been tattooed below
    His eye his mother cries she knows that he is strong enough to die
    He's rollin' in the Cadillac it's midnight sunroof is down
    Three shots rung out the hero's dead the new king is crowned

    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb
    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb
    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb
    Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah
    The boy's a time bomb, oh, time bomb Writer/s: Lars Frederiksen, Roger Mattew Freeman, Timothy Armstrong
    Publisher: Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Luke from Manchester, United KingdomThe verse tune borrows heavily from the verse tune of Little Bitch by The Specials
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