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Intro

Cars lined up the street

 A procession for the thief

 The men were restless and the women howled

 As they professed their grief

 A smoke was lying on his lips

 And in his hand a rusty flask

Even in death he'd forced a smile

 I oughta give him his dues for going out like that

Interlude

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 When you've walked through the valley

 Saw the face of death

 And you've paid your debts

 Well then, is there anything left

Is there anything left

 When you've settled up

 Is there anything left

 I came to pay a false courtesy

 So you couldn't get the best of me

 But the grief hung in the air and mingled with the sweat

 I presumed to know your inner workings, but I just wept

 I never thought much about the man

 He was always just drifting along

 But a couple hours in

 We were drunk as sin

 I was wrong, I was wrong about him

 I came around, I came around, I came around

 I took you for a hanger-on

 But the way those folks all wept

 You must've been doing something right

 To move the company you kept

 The drinks kept coming and I loosed my tongue

 And I talked a little shit

 But your friends just laughed and chimed right in

 Telling yarns so good it made me quit

 I never thought much about the man

 He was always just drifting along

 But a couple hours in

 We were drunk as sin

 I was wrong, I was wrong about him

 I came around, I came around, I came around

The room started reeling

I got the feeling I read you wrong

Then another bottle of gin

Break out the bar brawl again

You were the reason for them

 By the time the sun was at its feet

 Everybody there was pissed

 And I can say with some degree of certainty

 The old bastard will be missed

I thought your life was nothing more than one long grift

 Now I sit weeping by your coffin

 Clutching a bottle in my fist

 I came around, I came around, I came around x 6

New single from Murder by Death's unreleased album "Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon".

Make sure to buy it when it launches on Sept. 25th!