Infamous Son

from Half Empty by Robin Tymm

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lyrics

Kids at school can be cruel, yeah, they call me a spastic
‘Cause I like comic books and applied mathematics
They won’t be so bold when I’m holding my semi-automatic

My so-called teachers have long since stopped asking me questions
I sit there alone at the back of the room during lessons
Scheming and dreaming of firing my new Smith & Wesson

CHORUS
Gonna be this town’s most infamous son
Shooting the kids in the back as they run
I never knew high school could be so much fun

I no longer make much distinction between right and wrong
I could spare my friends but the truth is I ain’t really got none
Except my collection of knives and my mail-order shotgun

REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE
Just like in that movie called Fahrenheit four-fifty-one
I’ll set fire to the library and laugh as I watch those books burn
With fact and with fiction alight on the shelves
My last act is turning this gun on myself
You can’t live forever but this way you never can tell

If you’re looking for some explanations for these things I do
Well last year I posted a video up there on YouTube
It got four thousand hits but I guess that it’s since been removed

REPEAT CHORUS

© 2008 Robin Tymm
15th November 2008

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from Half Empty, released July 14, 2010
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