The Park Bench Rant - Wedding ring

^CI sat next to a man on a park bench next to a hotdog stand he said, catch the dragon’^Gs tail if you can. it’s a rush man! ^Cit’s a bad plan but if you get your fix maybe the fifth or sixt^Gh time

I said ^CI’m through with coke he said you want some dope? I choked and said I meant the ^Gdrink man, what did you think man? ^Cand we sat on your front steps I killed a bug with a cigarette and you ^Gtold about your first hit and I felt bad, I felt bad. I said ^Cthis one needs a chorus, maybe a sludgy number with some minor chords that they can ^Gtap their toes to, and not get bored because it rhymes. ^{C G} then I g^Cave this ring to you in hopes that we’d stay gold till we grow old ^Gabby lee come away with me. lets get ^Clost and maybe be happy someday have a house with ^Gtrees on a lane so shady I know it’s sappy and I got ^Cup and went for a walk got down the block got stung by a wasp she was ^Gmid-fifties white anglo-saxon square they’re not going anywhere.^{C G} got into a ^Cfist and cuff with my boss. I lost. he was pretty tough so I left and dropped my ^Gsmoke. felt like a joke, felt like a joke and I ^Cstumbled down my street on two broken feet past the bank who I forgot to thank for their corre^Gspondence found out I was broke. in fact ^Cworst then broke they can pinch and poke and push the yoke while the rich man laughs ^Goh what a gas oh what a funny fucked up joke and I ^Cpassed a black man with a blank stare we share the same air doesn’t

that the poor get no healthcare while the rich and bald can buy new hair, ^G its fucked! ^{C G} no ^Cmister I don’t mean to stare at your brand new car no you don’t care we can ^Ggo to war, or if your wife’s a whore. fuck the poor! you snooze, your

all they ^Cdo is snore that’s why I lock my front door and if something’s lost you just

^Gcall the cops, call the cops while people just want jobs ^Cwhere they don’t get robbed who do we call, ^Gwhen you get robbed. who ^Creally scores all the dirty drugs is it the rich or thugs? I can tell

^Gaint the poor. ^Cmister keep your stocks and shares, corner offices and executive chairs I ^Gbroke my last red cent for my woman’s love and ^Cmister I can’t pay the rent this month, n^Go mister I can’t pay the rent