Stagger Lee - Modern Life Is War

My name is Stagger Lee

And I’m walking through the ice and snow

And my girl threw me out last week

And I’m fucking broke

Nothing but this dollar in my pocket and my Colt .45

Don’t look at me the wrong way…

Cause I got nothing to lose tonight

I walk into JD’s

I put a dollar down

I turn a dollar into a few

I start drinking and I turn around

Cause I feel a pair of eyes burning into the back of my neck

He’s whispering to the barkeep

The goddamn fool won’t stop staring at me

So I shoot up from my seat and press the cold steel to his head and said

«Don't you know who the fuck I am?»

He said, «Stagger Lee, please don’t take my life

I’ve got a kid back home

And I’ve got a wife.»

He said, «Please, Stagger, please

I’m a friend, not a foe.

But your girl is with Billy at the Flamingo

I just thought you should know.»

So I pistol whip him in the teeth and walk outside

Steal the first fast car I see.

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Nd as my blood starts to boil…

I start to take a little ride

Leave the car running

Pull down the brim of my Black Stetson Hat

Look around and I see no witness

One last drink from my silver flask

I kick open the door.

I see their bodies intertwined

I see the fear in their eyes.

I point my Colt .45

And I feel divine

Stagger Lee… you’re a bad, bad man

Oh Stagger Lee, you’re going straight to hell