Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers

Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - Switchblade lyrics

rate me

Went down to Mexico on the Fourth of July

I got a tattoo of a moth and a butterfly

Had a little time to burn, a little money to spend

So I bought a switchblade for each of my friends

Pablo and Dan had a plan said

"We're gonna get rich,

Put the double cross

on a doubly crossin' narco-snitch,

Just a dirty little two-man job,

but it's a sure-fire win

And brother when we both cut him down,

we gonna cut you in."

Yeah dumb and drunk as I was

You know I'd do it all again

Back when I bought a switchblade

for each of my friends

They were sharp enough to stab

another hole in the sky

Hard enough to make the proudest diamond sigh

Faster than the rockets on the Fourth of July

Strong and cruel enough

to make a statue of Mary cry...

They said, "Amigo don'tcha worry

now we gonna disappear,

Just for a couple of months" they said.

Now it's been almost a year

Yeah if you want that kind of money,

man you gotta stay brave

Federales are pullin' bodies out of shallow graves

Yeah dumb and drunk as I was

You know I'd do it all again

Back when I bought a switchblade

For each of my friends

They were sharp enough to stab

another hole in the sky

Hard enough to make the proudest diamond sigh

Faster than the rockets on the Fourth of July

Strong and cruel enough

to make a statue of Mary cry...

Later in the fall, I got a call, "Boy won'tcha come down,

Maybe put a name with a few unlucky faces we found."

Now no matter what I do, can't get my heart to mend

Somebody buried a switchblade in each of my friends

Yeah dumb and drunk as I was

You know I'd do it all again

Back when I bought a switchblade

For each of my friends

Dumb and drunk as I was

You know I'd do it all again

Before I buried a switchblade

with each of my friends

They were sharp enough to stab another hole in the sky

Hard enough to make the proudest diamond sigh

Faster than the rockets on the Fourth of July

Strong and cruel enough

to make a statue of Mary cry...<br />

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