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The Ballad of Roach Redberry

from Going Deaf EP by The Rotten Blue Menace

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What do you see when you pass him on the street? He walks on the sidewalk with a frown upon his face. No good, dirty, rotten, hooligan rebel - who dropped out of school and whose parents didn’t love him. Just another punk ass kid with a chip on his shoulder, who falls into nothing as he gets older and older. Tattered clothes and rebellion is all you will see, but you never took the time to see the real me.
Back on his own again he has no family, has no friends. No one really gave a shit - this is it boy, this is it.
Twenty something years old and he’s headed in the wrong direction. Music is the closest thing he has to affection. Working his ass off but there’s no money in his pockets. Dead end job after dead end job, now he says fuck it. Stabbed in the back, countless times before, his entire life is drawn across the bedroom floor. What good is he alive when he’s better off dead? Sits in his room with a gun up against his head.
Back on his own again he has no family, has no friends. No one really gave a shit - this is it boy, this is it.
His heart full of dreams bigger than the universe, he can’t go on feeling like his life is so rehearsed. Can’t help feel like his back’s against the wall, pushing him to the edge until he starts to fall. As he sits up in his room with a gun fully loaded, repeating the words that his mother always told him. “I would do anything for you and I’ll love you til the end.” Then he pulled the trigger and now he’s fucking dead. He has now reached his end, destroyed his family, destroyed his friends. Everyone who gave a shit wishes they could change it.

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from Going Deaf EP, released July 26, 2016

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