Potboiler (Millard)
I shot my mouth off one more time
and handed you the smoking pistol
any time you choose I stand convicted
the cops couldn't catch me so the hotel dick did
I tried to phone up all of my friends in high places,
but she couldn't pull me out this time
Better not start that car myself
I think the battery must have been assaulted
any morning you can look somewhere in the sky
and see pieces of another unlucky guy
so let's do dinner: your shelter or mine?
weather's supposed to be brutal tonight
I think we're living in the pages of a
POTBOILER headbanger HOT LANGUAGE DRIPS RIGHT OFF THE PAGE
potboiler NO-BRAINER can't even begin to act our age
POTBOILER slice-'n'-dicer WE REALLY SHOULD BE ON THE STAGE
(time to take some drastic measures
for the same old spastic pleasures
this spot is spoiling; better unlock the elastic treasures
and hold the pistols to both heads at once
and make sure nobody moves)
the bargain-basement goons and official buffoons
look tough, but after you they're cheap cartoons
maybe they'll wind up in the service,
where the men are men and the lower ranks are nervous
and everybody's a character out of some potboiler...
POTBOILER headbanger HOT LANGUAGE DRIPS RIGHT OFF THE PAGE
potboiler NO-BRAINER can't even begin to act our age
POTBOILER slice-'n'-dicer WE REALLY SHOULD BE ON THE STAGE
potboiler STRAIGHT, NO CHASER
looks like anger, and it's all the rage
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