The ragamuffin gunner is returnin' home like a
hungry runaway He walks through town all alone He
must be from the fort he hears the high school
girls say His countryside's burnin' with wolfmen
fairies dressed in drag for homicide The hit and
run, plead sanctuary, 'neath a holy stone they
hide They're breakin' beams and crosses with a
spastic's reelin' perfection nuns run bald through
Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate
conception And everybody's wrecked on Main Street
from drinking that holy blood Sticker smiles sweet
as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud
And I said "Hey, gunner man, that's
quicksand, that's quicksand that ain't mud Have
you thrown your senses to the war or did you lose
them in the flood?"

That pure American brother, dull-eyed and
empty-faced races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy
stock super eight He rides 'er low on the hip, on
the side he's got Bound For Glory in red, white
and blue flash paint He leans on the hood telling
racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy The Saint
Well the blaze and noise boy, he's gunnin' that
bitch loaded to blastin' point He rides head first
into a hurricane and disappears into a point And
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fell That is, nothin' left that you could sell
just junk all across the horizon, a real
highwayman's farewell And I said "Hey kid,
you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil that's
blood" I wonder what he was thinking when he
hit that storm Or was he just lost in the flood?
Eighth Avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in
the air Some storefront incarnation of Maria,
she's puttin' on me the stare and Bronx's best
apostle stands with his hand on his own hardware
Everything stops, you hear five, quick shots, the
cops come up for air And now the whiz-bang gang
from uptown, they're shootin' up the street And
that cat from the Bronx starts lettin' loose but
he gets blown right off his feet And some kid
comes blastin' round the corner but a cop puts him
right away He lays on the street holding his leg
screaming something in Spanish Still breathing
when I walked away And somebody said "Hey man
did you see that? His body hit the street with
such a beautiful thud" I wonder what the dude
was sayin' or was he just lost in the flood? Hey
man, did you see that, those poor cats are sure
messed up I wonder what they was gettin' into or
we they all lost in flood?