Butcher Boy (live acoustic)

from The Murder Songs Bootleg by Tom Slatter

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It's like you're caught in a fever
Holding that cleaver
Little butcher boy
They're up to their necks,
but is that respect?
Little butcher boy

Say it's coming up roses
Coming up sweet
I bet they'd tell you anything
With you forcing the issue
Tying them up tight
Little butcher boy

Miss Alice has dimples and perfect white skin
She smiles as you let her in
Her smile turns to laughter as you bare your soul
White turns red and she has to go
It's all coming up roses
Spring will be here soon
As you work you hum a tune
Some kind of fever
Holding your tools
Little butcher boy

These bitter little pills they try to make you take
Have opened up doors and helped you escape

These bloody little cubes you're forcing down that drain
Won't help you escape from the law again

They say who you are.

Oh the looks you'll get
When they figure you out
The hearts you'll break
When they figure you out
The holes they'll dig
When they figure you out

And the knives they'll sharpen
When they figure you out
And the words they'll spit
When they figure you out
They shit they'll fling
When they figure you out

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from The Murder Songs Bootleg, released June 6, 2020

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Tom Slatter London

A latter-day Victorian street-theatre barker with a guitar promising tales of mystery, imagination, ‘orrible murders and bloody great waving tentacles’ is how Tom Slatter has been described. Since 2010 he has been scaring audiences with six albums and numerous EPs of storytelling songs. ... more

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