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Bootsy Billade

from Eleven For The Road by Benjamin Shepherd

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Arise hell, it's yesterday
Again and again and again
Arise hell, and meet me in the park so we can people watch

The very first time I met Bootsy Billade
He asked me if I had any cocaine I could sell
I said, "I don't really do it but thank you the same"
He nicknamed me Norman Rockwell

The two of us would sit and talk
All about everything that's wrong in the world
I liked a lot of music that he did not
And when we shared a silence it was comfortable

He said, "Norman I consider you a friend
I'll tell you something if you tell no one else
I'm married and I know you didn't know this before
But it ain't all flowers when you're sharing yourself
Now I'm gonna tell you bout my daughter Francine
She was so pretty that my heart would swell
My wife said, 'I ain't happy since the baby's been born'
I took her life and made it look like she fell"

Arise hell, it's yesterday again and again and again
Arise hell and meet me in the park so we can people watch

I said, "Bootsy, that's ok" but I was visibly shaken
"But tell me which it was your wife or your girl?"
He said, "They're both in better places"
We sat there listening to the sound of the room

The very last time I saw Bootsy Billade
He was spitting off of the bridge on my street
I waved and he shot me the coldest stare
So I walked away and pretended we never did meet

You really never know about the people you know
You really never think about the people you don't

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from Eleven For The Road, released July 3, 2014

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Benjamin Shepherd Richmond, Virginia

Southern antifolk with a lyrical focus.

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