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It was a humid summer Of diseased mosquitoes and heat strokes I was working on an assembly line until school started up And that’s where I met Ben “I’m a Eunuch”, Ben said “I was in my prime when they cut me down They were tired of me chasing their daughters Burning their precious mill to the ground“ “They got me when I stole Mr. Beck’s Corvette His yapping Shih Tzu riding shotgun I parked it in the lake and learned to swim Then I was too worn out to run” “Met Lily in the Milledgeville Asylum They fixed her the same as me She’s my halfwit infertile beauty They cut us both down like rotten trees“ “But we were blooming,” Ben said “I broke us out and stole a ring“ Still see them when I’m sleeping In dreams, when I’m tired and alone Lily’s smiling, picking bugs off of the altar And a rose is pinned to Ben’s blood-soaked tuxedo Last time I saw Ben SongtexteBlood rolled down the conveyor belt He was injured bad but still working Swearing he’d send some guy to hell Ben said, “I don’t mind he shot me If I’m being honest, I deserved it But what he did to my sweet Lily She don’t deserve that one bit“ Looking in Ben’s eyes, I knew he meant it And I realized I was a coward Next day I heard those cheap apartments Near the river had burned down A few people died And Ben was long gone In my dreams they watch the fire Their twin gold teeth gleam like polished guns See them on the highway, her toes tapping on a suitcase In a new corvette Ben’s aiming at the sun I dream they’re on the run Always driving towards the sun I always dream they’re on the run They’re driving straight for the burning sun Aus Songtexte Mania