The Ike Reilly Assa**ination - St. Joe's Band lyrics

I used to play the harp in the St. Joe's Band Blow my lungs out for salvation "s** those reeds, boy, and be a man And wait in hell for an ovation." God left me peace, left me free, left me be Left me swinging in the breeze Like a coward on my knees Unpeacefully retreating I used to play the harp in a garage band For the bullies and all their marijuana White boys' blues are all secondhand But blow it hard when you got 'em Blow it in the coves In the ditches, in the streams In the cemeteries Where the statues never bleed And the gravel pit that fluttered With the steam shovels covered By the water and the danger and the weeds And the parties in the basements Of all the broken homes Of the girls whose fathers Are gone and had to roam Gotta roam, gotta roam Gotta roam, gotta roam God left me peace, left me free, left me be Left me swinging in the breeze Like a coward on my knees Unpeacefully retreating God left me peace, left me free, left me be Left me swinging in the breeze Like a flicker through the trees Unpeacefully retreating I used to play the harp in the St. Joe's Band Blow my lungs out for salvation I wanna get paid like any man And find my heaven waiting Take all your bullsh** when you make a stand And your big house burns down slowly A thousand souls of the faithful wake To haunt your house unholy Go away, go away, you holy ghost Take your party out to the coast I can't be your gracious host I don't play the harmonica God left me peace, left me free, left me be Left me swinging in the breeze Like a flicker through the trees Unpeacefully retreating God left me peace, left me free, left me be Left me swinging in the breeze Like a coward on my knees Unpeacefully retreating, retreating