The Man with the Plastic Suns - Jaguar Love

My daddy played in a vegas band, he made an alright decent living playing big

band standards for business men and their paid asian escorts

Till he started up gambling and in one hand lost 50 grand, bet it all on four

kings but somebody had aces

They called him the man with the plastic suns rumored to kill cops just for fun,

or made a fortune scamming old ladies in nursing homes

Oh the man with the plastic suns, invents diseases just for fun,

oh he blackmailes rainbows to turn into nooses

So I dropped out of high school and got a job selling phones at the mall

But I could make twice as much money taking my shirt off at the cocktail bar

My daddy pawned all his guitars but he was still 30 000 short, then one day

three rancid ruthless men broke down the door

First they butchered his whole right hand, oh he never played trumpet again,

pay up by Friday or we’re coming back for your cock and your kneecaps

He----y give us our money or we’ll break your fucking legs---lets race to the

desert

He=y I could use a stiff drink, or just some time to think—lets race the

badlands lets race the ocean

My daddy stopped leaving the house, and he drank and he drank and he drank,

stayed up all night talking to pictures of my dead mother

Then I found him in the basement smashing tv’s on the cement filling swimming

pools gasoline and drawings of angels

Oh mr plastic suns won’t you have some mercy on me

Oh mr plastic suns won’t you let my poor daddy be

Hey give us our money or we’ll break your fucking legs lets race the desert

Hey I could use a stiff drink or just some time to think lets race the badlands

Hey you walk into a postcard of somewhere in London

Hey theres a loft party down the street music dripping down from the trees bass

blazing tranquilizing beats voices of people you’d like to meet

So I took a pistol and put on a low cut shirt

Found the man with the plastic suns at the crap table and started to flirt

Hey a man was shot today took six bullets to the face

Hey the rumour on the street is that the suspect is sixteen

Hey the man with the plastic sun was pronounced dead on arrival

Hey and an ex musician hung himself in a suburban attic yeah the desert is

laughing the desert is mourning