The Taxpayers - Jimmy Bartlett's Teeth

There was this kid I used to know
And he was born with the
Wrong name and I would walk with
Him to school every day
On a cold October morning he
Was jumped by a gang
Of local highSchool kids with
Pipes and rusty chains
When the ambulance arrived all his
Teeth were broken out
And Jimmy Bartlett never walked
Quite the same
Turns out the house that he grew
Up in had been stolen
By a man 100 years before
Who shared his last name

And while we're talking about houses
We grew up in, lemme
Tell you about mine: it was an
Honest little one story place
But when my mother died it
Became abandoned for a while, and
Was quickly repossessed by the bank
But then in 1985 a
Couple neighborhood kids broke
Into the house through the back door
When the fire trucks arrived
It was burnt to the ground
There ain't a sign of that
House there any more

But that's alright but that's alright
But that's alright but that's alright
But that's alright but that's alright
But that's alright but that's alright
That's alright that's alright right
Right right right

When I was nine years old I watched
A kid get his legs broken
Because of his last name 17 years later
An arson fire burned down the house
Where I was born there ain't
No moral to any of that and
There ain't nobody to blame
It was just one of those things

Written by:
ALEXANDER BEKUHRS, ANDREW LINK, KEVIN LURKINS, NASRENE KORDANI, NOAH PHILLIPS, ROBERT MORTON

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Lyrics © Songtrust Ave

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