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Young Jackal

from Death Rattle by Ropes

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lyrics

If I’ve learnt one thing from this place
A lesson written on my grave well it would say
Wisdom comes too goddamn late
And is smothered by regrets and could-have-beens
All we have when we die is just a name

Charlie was a rambling man
He held a black dove in each hand
Still he searched from bush to bush
To find something he never could

He taught me on a 22
And pretty soon I joined his crew
We stormed the safes and had the whores
A pirate’s life lived on the shores

She wrote it on a napkin I can still remember that lipstick read
However far a river flows that little creek will never forget

Young jackal was what they called me
A trigger hand of lightning speed
In every bar and every fight
The last to leave on every night

Last thing Charlie said to me was what have I done
I lived a life for greed and son I never won
I’ll die a spectre of a man
All I keep is just a name

He poured two shots for him and I
And took two more the day he died
Inside my cell I learnt the news
And then I understood the blues

She wrote it on a napkin I can still remember that lipstick read
However far a river flows that little creek will never forget
Its source, never a truer word
You can’t outrun your past not even on the ocean floor

There comes a time in a man’s life
He has to face the day he’ll die
He shuts his eyes
And asks himself the hardest question of a man’s pride

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from Death Rattle, released August 7, 2012
Lead Guitar: Lee Champion

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Dual vocaled, southern sound with a hint of metal

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