How The West Is Won

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It's a toe tapping cap gun kinda kidnap
She's tossed into the back of a Cadillac
Tied up to the trunk of an old apple tree
He's demanding a ransom at a handsome fee

Cheap suits & cowboy boots
She's gagged down on her knees
What a hoot at the photo shoot
When he set that woman free

Dream deep as sycamore roots
But nature never sleeps
Cut loose with the kind of loot
That'll make a grown man weep

It's the gasoline
In a limousine
It's the beauty queen
In a magazine

Gold's turning green
And the silver screen ain't what it used to be
More like a smoke screen
So the coke & the joke's on me

Cheap suits & cowboy boots
They're dancing under the tree
What a hoot at the photo shoot
When he let that woman be

Dream deep as sycamore roots
No, nature never sleeps
Cut loose when you bear the fruit
But the seeds ain't yours to keep

They're running on black caffeine
And a dash of nicotine
In a cul-de-sac
On a trampoline

They're going where the grass is green
And the past is history
Where the talking's fast but the money's clean
Don't forget the sunscreen

By the time I realized the documents were falsified
The signature was forged and notarized
This is how the West is won—The white man kills the Indian
The Mexican is in for a surprise

She plagiarized her way through life
The check's been cashed, the deal's done
They stacked the deck, the truck is wrecked
And that is how the West is won

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from How The West Is Won, released September 22, 2017

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Post-apocalyptic electronic rock

Derek Shaw
Daniel Owens

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