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The Reaper Lyrics by Jonah Kagen

2025

[Chorus]
\nSlow up child
\nYou're gonna get burned
\nLay down, where you goin' in a hurry?
\nThere ain't water in the wine
\nYou're gonna live a long long life
\n
\n[Verse 1]
\nI woke up one mornin' restless on a bed of gasoline
\nFinally dawned on me the time that I've spent shackled in these sheets
\nSaid life inside these walls ain't doin' nothin good for me
\nSo I burned down that old brick house and I threw away the key
\n
\nHeaded west out to Montana and said I'm nevеr comin' home
\nClosed my eyеs and grip the wheel and let my chest say where to go
\nBut I met God in Greenville county upside down, glass on the road
\nHe said "Boy you never warmed up you got used to bein' cold"
\n
\n[Chorus]
\nSlow up child
\nYou're gonna get burned
\nLay down, where you goin' in a hurry?
\nThere ain't water in the wine
\nYou're gonna live a long long life
\nSlow up boy
\nShut your mouth
\nStop preaching 'bout shit you don't know about
\nYou got nothin' but time
\nYou're gonna live a long long life
\n
\n[Verse 2]
\nMet a girl out in the desert and she told me I was ill
\nShe said I will make you better and she handed me a pill
\nShe was pretty so I thought if this won't help me nothin' will
\nSoon enough I woke up floating high above the desert hills
\n
\nThen all at once the desert sounded evil and turned black
\nI watched what little life was left catch fire and turn to ash
\nAnd I saw my mother standing there with an empty can of gas
\nShe said "What the fuck you doin' boy you get your ass right back"
\n
\n[Chorus]
\nSlow up child
\nYou're gonna get burned
\nLay down, where you goin' in a hurry?
\nThere ain't water in the wine
\nYou're gonna live a long long life
\nSlow up boy
\nAnd shut your mouth
\nStop preaching 'bout shit you don't know about
\nYou got nothin' but time
\nYou're gonna live a long long life
\n
\n[Chorus]
\nSlow up child
\nYou're gonna get burned
\nLay down, where you goin' in a hurry?
\nThere ain't water in the wine
\nYou're gonna live a long long life
\nSlow up boy
\nAnd shut your mouth
\nStop preaching 'bout shit you don't know about
\nYou got nothin' but time
\nYou're gonna live a long long life\n\n
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Jonah Kagen

Jonah Kagen

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