Eye Witness on the Run

from Manufacturing Joy by TJ Kong + the Atomic Bomb

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It was late last night and the Texaco light
burned like a moon on the map of his face and
I saw a black man run and then a thick white smoke
hung like a ghost and smelled like cocaine

And an old pair of shoes on the side of the road
and the whispers of glass where the stones had been thrown
and the cast iron thieves and the red flash that lights my way home

I heard a back door slam and then the blue flame eyes
turned in your head like a bird in the snow
and my feet went first and then the back of my hands
tied to a tree where they gathered my clothes

And a face in a dream and the entrails of steam
and the money changed hands in an old Grand Marquis
and the blood ran slow like tears on the black concrete

It was late last night and the Texaco light
burned like a moon on the map of his face and
I saw a black man run and a thick white smoke
hung like a ghost and smelled like cocaine

And a face in a dream and the entrails of steam
and the money changed hands in an old Grand Marquis
and the blood ran slow like tears on the black concrete

Oh my god, I am my own god…

credits

from Manufacturing Joy, released September 25, 2012
Vocals/Guitar - Dan Bruskewicz
Drums/Yelling - Dan Martino
Lead Guitar - Kevin Conner
Upright Bass - Joshua "J.A.M" Machiz

Words & Music by Bruskewicz

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discography

Dancing out the Door

Oct 2017
KONG

Mar 2014
Manufacturing Joy

Sep 2012
Idiots

May 2010

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