by The Killigans on album Honor
'You bastard, you son of a bitch, I wish you were dead.* Were the words that my dear mother called as I crawled out of bed, I don’t know what happened last night, but there’s puke on
by The Killigans on album Honor
We’re closing in on the end of a year’s vacation we’re letting go of a grudge that was never there* Premeditation a false revelation missing pages from my vocabulary A school yard pr
by The Killigans on album Honor
You take and outta luck kid with the weight of the world crashin down on the backs of his shoulders* And a white trash girl with no high school degree getting married in the local bar Neither one had
by The Killigans on album Honor
Lying in a ditch, bleeding, begging for your life* Your friends have all left you forsaken, The eyes that look upon you are impassive as the stone, That soon will mark your shallow grave. As the spade
by The Killigans on album Honor
Yesterday I was no worse off than you* Yesterday I was another day younger too Yesterday I took my chance on tomorrow Yesterday I thought today Id have a little more to show This is another song sung
by The Killigans on album Honor
Well it’s cold outside but I can’t complain* I can take a little weather, I can take a little rain And every time I notice means I haven’t gone insane Yeah it’s cold, cold outs
by The Killigans on album Brown Bottle Hymnal
Ninety miles an hour, down this interstate Driving on my last twenty dollars of gas Got everything I own inside this Chevrolet Going nowhere and that needle’s dropping fast That woman broke my
by The Killigans on album Honor
Look away to the setting sun another wasted summer’s day another loaded gun* That’s welling up inside of me begging me to hit the lonesome roads tonight There’s no way out of a corne
by The Killigans on album Live at The Zoo Bar
Step out the way, for I’m coming through By now don’t you know who I am Now, buy me a drink, and we’ll get on o.k. Ah the saints and your conscience be damned Now big Tom Mathine, was know
by The Killigans on album Honor
A wiser man once said to me don’t waste your money and save every dime* When hard times come you’ll thank the lord above for thrift stores and paid overtime Working hard not hardly working
by The Killigans on album Honor
Take a fall for dishonest men take a ride through the blackened wilderness* Close your eyes and look the other way He’s got the reins in his grip held tight throws a bone to the lowly working ma
by The Killigans on album Honor
My family finally lost the farm in 1955* Great Granddad moved to town after he buried his second wife, The bank took everything for which they suffered and they built, Tried the bottle, tried the cros
by The Killigans on album Live at The Zoo Bar
Gather round the glass and grab hold of your ladies We’ll send off Karsky’s Soldiers one by one We’ll drink your health by the fire, keep one step ahead of hell Cuz dead men never see the ris
by The Killigans on album One Step Ahead of Hell
Gather round the glass and grab hold of your ladies We’ll send off Karsky’s Soldiers one by one We’ll drink your health by the fire, keep one step ahead of hell Cuz dead men never see the ris
by The Killigans on album Brown Bottle Hymnal
Apathetic notions of the world politic surround me Elitist versions of equality implanted in my head Carrot hung before the populace Shining promises of opportunity But for me, the son of a poor m
by The Killigans on album Brown Bottle Hymnal
Farmer stands watching, as his crops wilt away Farmer stands watching, as his crops wilt away Cry out to the Lord God, “Help me Jesus I pray! Tis the land of my fathers’ and I must find a way!�