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Butcher Boy

from Spirit Box by Tom Slatter

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lyrics

It's like you're caught in a fever
Holding that cleaver
Little butcher boy

And they're up to their necks
but is that respect
Little butcher boy

Say it's coming up roses
Coming up sweet
But 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 when you let her

But that smile turns to laughter
As you bare your soul
White turns red
And she has to go

It's all coming roses
Spring'll 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 scream who you are
And what you are
Little butcher boy

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
The shit they'll fling
When they figure you out

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from Spirit Box, released November 14, 2018

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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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