Songtexte Bang Bang (Live) - Dispatch

Come on, Braggie
Alright, we need to hear your voices on this one, come on

Yeah, she woke me up with a bang, bang
Lookin' over cross eyed
I had a big hunch that the world was a big lie
When I got up, all the blood to my head
Got so dizzy fell back into my bed

I went over to the way side
Lookin' for the high tide
What will I find, will I find, will I find-find?
All I saw was a man that had a hat
That had a pom-pom, he's been there for years
Can someone tell me how long?

Wake up to tell me
Wake up to show me what I could not find
Wake up to tell me
C'mon wake up
Wake up to show me what I could not

You see this woman woke me up at a quarter 'til three
And I didn't know it then but she put a spell on me
Said I had to go down to where the cliffs meet the sea
And meet an old man to present my plea
So I headed way down to the big pier (big pier)
To await and confront my big fear (big fear)

I wheeled around behind to my blindside
To find an old man with a lime and a kind eye
I said "Mister, mister, with your beard so long
Won't you be a saint and tell me just where I'm goin'"
He pointed to a conch shell and then to the lime
Said, "This is all I really need to get by"

Wake up to tell me
Wake up to show me what I could not find
Wake up to tell me
C'mon wake up
Wake up to show me what I could not

I said, "Hey, (hey) mister man
I know you don't know who you think I
Think I am
But I can safely say, that I shoulda been sleepin'
Been sleepin', been sleepin', been sleepin'
The day away"
Hey, hey

Aw, let's hear you all from the grass where we used to hang out
Hey, hey
Bein' down here is like, I never dreamed of being in
One of these seats, it was always the grass, it was always the lawn
Jumpin' the fence in high school
Gettin' chased down by security and just tryin' to run into the
The biggest crowd of people you could find

This here's Matt Embree on the guitar

Ooh-hoo, oh-ho
Ooh-hoo, oh-ho
Ooh-hoo, oh-ho
Ooh-hoo, oh-ho

I laid out from Reno, I was
Trailed by twenty hounds
I didn't get to sleep that night
Till the morning came around

I set out runnin' gonna take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I just might get some sleep tonight

Got a wife in Chino, baby
Got one in Cherokee
First one says she got my child
But it don't look like me

I set out runnin' gonna take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I just might get some sleep tonight

I said, "E'scuse me, have you got the time"
He shrugged his shoulders said, "Get a spine"
Coconut hit me on the head, jonesin' for a fig
I got booked last night, I need another fix, dig?

Well, just then I see a twinkle, twinkle in the old man's eye
And a wave-tossed bottle is thrown to the sky
I caught it on the rebound, it landed with a soft sound
I took out the message and put the bottle down
Inside was the antidote to the spell (ooh)
And I read it to the man 'cause he couldn't read so well
Said "Don't worry about a thing, ya know your path is true
Just ease your mind have a banana (or two)"

Well, goodness, goodness, woe is me
The man nearly flipped to learn that he was free
But just before we left and started kickin' it
I picked up the bottle and (star-sixed it)
Kick-kick, shuffle-shuffle back to the beach
With a tune on my lips and my quest in reach
If that woman come to you with her song so sweet
Say damn, let the poor sucker sleep

Ah, let's hear it now, Boston

Wake up to tell me
C'mon, a-keep it goin' now
(Wake up to show me what I could not find)
Wake up to tell me
C'mon wake up
Wake up to show me what I could not find

So, if you guys wouldn't mind, um
I have a six-week-old baby girl and she's watching this show
In Idaho along with our family, so
Let's give Vera Corrigan a warm welcome tonight as she sleeps
As, as you hope she sleeps
As we hope she sleeps, Lisa, I hope she's sleepin', babe