| A bunch of wild boys was hangin around at the local neighborhood saloon
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| And some cat kept droppin quarters down in the jukebox playin all the favorite
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| tunes
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| And back by the bar playin cars lookin hard was big bad Solomon Jones
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| And watchin over his luck was the love of his life his lady that was known as
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| Simone
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| Went out of the night which was dark and cold into the smoke-filled dimly lit
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| room
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| Stumbled into thug who-a smelled like bud and his eyes looked high as the moon
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| He looked like a man with his foot in the grave and his lifetime 'bout to be out
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| Yet he slapped down some hundred dollar bills on the bar
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| And he yelled out «Drinks on the house»
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| Now nobody could place where this dude was from but we knew that he was far
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| from home
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| But we drank to his health and the last to drink, was big bad Solomon Jones
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| Now there’s some G’s who just run the streets, and they live life in and out of
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| jail
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| And such was he, that kind of O.G., that looked like he been through hell
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| With his hair in cornrows, a mean mug grill, like a dog whose day is done
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| He lit up the green stuff in his cigar, and he took hits one by one
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| Now I got to thinkin who this cat could be, and what the hell is goin on
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| Yeller turned around and who was starin at him, the lady that was known as
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| Simone
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| In the white t-shirt all stained with dirt, he was tryin not to be rude
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| But he was tryin to find another good song on the jukebox so he could just set
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| the mood
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| Have you ever been out in the city streets, where the game they play is so clear
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| Where the police and gangsters control the block, and gunshots is all that you
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| hear?
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| When the only sound are the drums of war, and you left out in the cold
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| A half-dead man in a half-dead world, on a yellow brick road to gold
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| Then all of a sudden the music changed, and everyone just held their pulse
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| But it felt like your life had been robbed from you, and everything that you
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| held close
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| That someone had stolen the woman you loved, and that her love was a devil’s lie
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| That your heart was gone, and the best thing that you could do was crawl away
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| and die
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| It’s the painful cry of a man’s despair, deep down in his bones
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| I guess misery enjoys company, said big bad Solomon Jones
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| Then the stranger turned, and his eyes had burned in a most peculiar way
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| And the white t-shirt that was stained in dirt, he sat down to watch it sway
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| Then his mouth had frowned up in this kind of grin, and he spoke in a voice so
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| clear
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| «Boy you don’t know who I am, and I know that you just don’t care
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| Now I’ma say these words cause these words are true and when I’m done here I’ll
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| be gone
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| But one of you boys is a sheisty dog and his name is Solomon Jones»
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| Then I ducked my head and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark
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| Then a woman screamed, and the lights came on, and the two men laid stiff as
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| starch
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| With a bullet in his head and pumped full of lead was big bad Solomon Jones
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| While the thug from the street who was holdin his heat
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| And holdin on to that lady named Simone |