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allone (usa) - the case of sydney barringer lyrics

the year was 1958
los angeles the cityscape
seventeen was sydney’s age
the motive was a quick escape
he simply hated
his parents arthur and faye
could hardly wait to get away
whatever way the wind would take him

see
mr. and mrs. barringer
were simplistic bickering characters
disinterested in it’s bearing on
their kid, they’d hardly cared for him
tight budgets and too tight quarters
might cut their fuses’ light’s shorter

tense, turbulence, tend towards testy cursing fits
that steadily worsen to render the term “domestic disturbance”
to “tender attempts at encouragement”

arthur, was a worthless lush
mother, was a termagant
her words would rush and work him up
to, sure enough, a hurtful drunk
he’d redden quick, clench his fists
leave her eyes with purple lumps
she’d threaten him, a deadly risk
her screams aside, preferred a gun
so said syd’ “this settles it”
he devised a terminal jump

he felt like a lost son
beaten down more than brought up
seemed slaughter was all they want done
in the long run
then arthur cut his ch0r- funds off just
to afford more gut rot?

that was the last straw
plucked from a haystack
whose needle is mom’s love
these thoughts rush on while
he’s loading the shotgun
then scrawled a note describing
why he’d climb to the 9 story
tall roof he’d choose to take
that fatal fall from

not even a week elapsed
the bonds that were weak collapsed
we could ask “why?”
we’ve seen the cl-ssic “good and evil” clashing
inner demons battle inner peace in eons past
if only powder kegs
that sparked the heated flash
arguments in that apartment
would thaw the frigid shoulders
their t-tanic seething madness
would inevitably be crashing
perhaps the tragedy
wouldn’t have even happened

the barringer’s bicker back and forth
t-t for tat of course, this and that endured
“b-tch” and “b-st-rd” roared
p-ssing match procured
brick-a-brak has soared
syd just grabbed his mournful
disturbing note and fled
a whisper out the door
enraged from that violent portal
meditating he’d preferred to go
ascend to the diving board roof
fight escalated as he’s curling toes
in no way is this child support!
trembling vertigo
never saw down that 9 before
his place just a third below
despite his suicidal thoughts
terrified to build courage to go
but when he heard them both
this pushed him over the edge

as he stepped off the ledge
his father’s back was pressed
against the wall on the same side
from which his son just stepped
fending off faye’s firing squad impression
an unprecedented accident
the gun kicked back and by awful chance
the bullet missed arthur and
hit syd, ripped apart his chest
as his body plummeted
this was the cause of death
since in a believe ripley or not event
had it not been for the shot connecting
sydney would have fallen yes
but been safely dropped into a window washers net

since he loaded the shotgun you’d guess
the suicide was a success
forensics figured it fayes’ fault and said
sydney was an accomplice in his own end

- allone usa lyrics

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