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You'll Never Take Us Alive!

by BeerGnomes

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Well they take take take 'til there was nothing left now I'm lying here with two in the chest how I woke up and found myself alive guess I didn't have the heart to sit and let myself die my wife and kids were found down in a puddle of blood house burnt down, now its sticks and mud all this at the hand of twenty men well I bet they never thought they'd see my face again Well they took everything that I had, shoulda took my life as well you can call me a son of a bitch but I'll see these men in hell I'll load up my shotgun, my six shooter by my side and I'll go to the place of retribution sell my soul at the crossroads, its gonna be one hell of a ride me and Satan gonna take these men to hell tonight Well the sky was all dark and, boy, my soul was black drove through the front door in the front door in my Cadillac jumped outta the car with my guns ablaze the blood was flying round in a smokey haze I overturned a table to reload my guns popped back up and six more were done shotgun blast three more to the ground I was out of ammunition but one more I found With his finger on the trigger, put a bullet right between my eyes as I sank down to that dirty floor I strangely felt alright well that deal, it was broken, and my soul was mine again as I ascended through the clouds and up to heaven well I knew I had it coming 'cause I done the same to him when all your friends are killers, well, you don't betray your friends
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We are but rats on the lowly city streets and we must bow down to royalty we have no food or bread so we'll eat rotten meat instead and we will die how we were born, down on our knees Well the king, he doesn't care if his people go hungry what are we his people for but if we organize than boys we'll catch him by surprise and he'll see what we have in store Hold your head high brother, the new day comes tomorrow won't have to beg or borrow we won't hide there in the night I'll scream "Viva la republique!' and fight until the sunrise and if I fall before you then I pray you see the light Build the barricade, my friends, we'll show them we mean business they think we're fucking schoolboys but we'll put them to the test and let God and this country be our witness We men are made of flesh and bone but our flesh is easily broken but our lives and our ideals will be remembered after this and they'll know that we weren't joking
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When I was back in school I liked to call it like I saw some said I called it like I saw right on a wall but that penmanship weren't mine although it wasn't out of line I'm not inclined to take the fall for another's crime I gave him up to clear my name, but I was punished all the same did he expect of me that I would play his game well he came at me with a knife and so I all but took his life and it was me who got expelled for all my strife At the age of fifteen, I got into a fight with a man twice my size, turned out his light well he didn't take to kind, one day he jumped me from behind but five bullets in his chest is what he'd find so my paw he told me run he said the army's gonna come don't wanna see my son with a rope around his throat so in hiding I did stay, those bastards found me anyway and by that fall I'd sent four men into their graves Was on the run that I became a school teacher by trade I had escaped my outlaw ways to live a lie but I could not turn down a bet, although sometimes I do regret for a bottle of booze I'd shoot out some fool's eye was in Hill County playing cards, some fellow thought I'd gone too far he said that he would cut me up if I kept on though I did not desire to fight, he'd come to find me late that night he'd lose his life to me before the break of dawn so my girl she told me run she said the law is gonna come don't wanna see my man with a rope around his throat but I was captured by surprise, I'd kill the law by firelight and by morning with my freedom reunite So I grew up strong and mean, the greatest shot you've ever seen eventually I would uphold that law star's gleam and I'd have plenty of friends and on them I could depend and a woman who's honor I'd defend and I would give up on the run to me no harm was gonna come no one wants to see a rope around my throat but I was shot down in the street and not one angel came to meet my soul that to this day lies six feet deep
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Well they knocked me out and tied me up, they took me from my home from my friends, relations, family, where we're headed I don't know this drive is long as hell I can't go long without abuse and I've tried screaming through this dirty rag but believe me its no use my eyes have been replaced with this tear soaked scarf of black as I write this on my memory with my hands behind my back I've been robbed of my redemption, not the man I was back then I've found myself in solitude but will we ever meet again I still miss you every day I wish that I just could've stayed I wish to Christ that this would all just go away but I still miss you every day I've been beaten down and broken up, the pieces of my life and I couldn't help but tremble when you said goodbye that night I didn't really know if I'd lay eyes on you again I swore I'd write you letters but couldn't find the strength to pen sometimes I think about forgiveness, I'm still sore as hell sometimes this bed gets lonely but most times it's just as well I've drained my share of bottles, helps me find some cheap relief when I come to all I can feel is pain and tears and grief I still miss you every day sometimes I'm glad you didn't stay I pray to God sometimes you'd stay the hell away but I still miss you every day Sometimes I think of you and pray Say all the things I keep locked away I'll break these ropes somehow I swear that I'll escape and I'll still miss you every day
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Monsters 02:39
When I was a young boy, well I believed in ghosts and other sorts of scary shit like that now that I'm a grown man, my body's just a host to all those memories of time gone past Now momma leave the lights on and I won't make a sound the monsters in my head are all my friends I'll tuck me in and say my prayers, my knees set to the ground close my eyes and play they're not pretend Some people like to judge some folks, some folks a lot like me they say my soul is going straight to hell what gives you the right, my friends, did you create this shores and trees guess not so then I hope to see you there Now mom I'll leave the lights on but you won't make a sound the cancer in your head is not your friend I'll tuck you in and say your prayers, my knees set to the ground close my eyes and play its all pretend
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Last Call 01:12
United we stand, together as one to the end of this bottle, at the end of a gun I will not falter, I'll stand by your side as you are my brother, 'twil be 'til we die We drink to now we drink to memories we drink to things that will come when time is new we stand our ground stand by our family we drink to them, my fellow man, we drink to you Good comrades be we, so I'll raise my glass to the time that we've shared, may it not too quickly pass may they forget not, may their lives be so well fear not when we're gone for we'll see you in hell

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Recorded at Fast Horse Studios in Austin, TX
Engineered by Jarett Bostick

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released June 29, 2012

Additional vocals on "Things We'll Never Know" by Casi & Kenzie Moss

Album layout by Ross Cops

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