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Bleed It Out

from Make Tapes by Rattle Rattle

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Are you left handed or right handed?
Actually, it doesn't matter: I'm left handed, so I'll just show you the way that I do it, and you can reverse it your head later if you need to.

The first thing you gotta remember is that you keep all the grams in your left pocket -- except for the display gram, which you keep in your right hand.

And see, if ever during the day you're feeling down -- you just need to sharpen up between the ears -- you can dip on in to that display gram and just take a little bump.

See, boss doesn't care. Boss doesn't care if you take a bump here and there. Boss doesn't care if you bump 'em all down and mug a tourist to get the money. All boss cares is at the end of the day, boss gets paid.

So go ahead: bump 'em down.

(But once you bump’em down about a third of the way, that’s a tourist gram:)

See, the one thing you gotta remember is you never sell the local junkie the tourist gram.
Every business in this country knows:
you bleed the tourist quick,
leave the locals let enough alone,
they’ll be here bleedin’ out ‘til they die.

Now you’ve gone and done it. Now you’ve gone and done it.
Hit me right between the eyes. Hit me right between the eyes.
Now you’ve gone and done it. Now you’ve gone and done it.
Leave me here to bleed it out. Leave me here to bleed it out.

With the older tourists, you start with the shades:
“Gucci? Armani? Ray Ban?”
With the kids you can cut right to the chase.
“Hashish? Cocaine? M?”

With the locals you can tell by the tweak:
if they’re tired or testy, they just need some hash.
If they’re right fucked, then bum’em a smoke first
and sell’em the chainsaws to outrun that crash.

Now you’ve gone and done it…

When the tempers wade in with
with the wax of the moon,
let me teach a trick, which
which I learned from the womb:

Sometime the faster it gets
the less you need to know,
but you’ve gotta remember
the sharper you get
the faster you’ll move that blow.

Now you’ve gone and done it…

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from Make Tapes, released December 13, 2014

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