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Bowling Green Massacre

from HALaska by Hal Guitarist

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I went to see the drummer
Or rather he came to visit me
Travelling some distant
Roads to get to me

And later he had to head home
So I followed him for days
I got caught up in a missed turn
Got lost along the way

And when I came to I realized
It just was six the following day
And then I met my relatives
Who got me on my way

I took a train to Memphis,
Or was it New Orleans?
It took some rambly circuitous route
Through some Bowling Greens

The bridges were bombarded
The tunnels all closed down
The train it was derailed
Bombed from a car rundown

Now I see a woman
Tears crying from her eyes
In shock for her boyfriend
Barely will survive

And me I was in the first car
With my family
We all escaped unscathed
Somewhat miraculously

There’s an angry man now pacing
Up and down the train
He just wants to torture
Those he wants to blame

He just wants to punch them
‘Till they spit blood out of their head
And just leave them there to die
Just an inch from dead

Yes all this never happened,
Ah, ‘twas but a dream
But I can clearly picture
The horror and the screams

And still I see that woman
Crying for her friend
I don’t even know
If he made it out or is dead

Let’s make up a massacre
Let’s fabricate a scene
Whether it’s Sweden or Atlanta
Or maybe just Bowling Green

The suckers don’t know the diffrence’
They’ll totally be fooled
We’ll just make off with money
And they’ll be misruled

We sell it to the papers
A story of the war
With battles in those places
I mentioned here before

Staying up night tired
I went to go to bed
And suddenly this all happened
All inside my bead

I know the trains don’t go there
They take another route
But falling off a cliff
Makes all these points moot

Still I think about them
People in my head
Don’t know if I should trust them
Or just pretend they’re dead

And then there was the drummer
Marching to his grave
World war enactor
And these dreams come true today

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from HALaska, released April 20, 2017

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