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Fall of the Star High School Running Back Lyrics by Loamlands

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas

2017

[Verse 1]
Sophomore year
You rushed for an average of eight and a third yards per carry
All eyes were on you
Junior year
Blew your knee out at an out-of-town game
[Bridge]
Nowhere to go but down, down, down
Nothing but the ground left for you to fall to
[Verse 2]
By July
You'd made a whole bunch of brand new friends
People you used to look down on
And you'd figured out a way to make real money
Giving ends to your friends and it felt stupendous
Chrome spokes on your Japanese bike
But selling acid was a bad idea
And selling it to a cop was a worse one
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
The new laws said that seventeen-year-olds could do federal time
You were the first one
Oh, and so I sing this song for you
William Staniforth Donahue
Your grandfather rode the boat over from Ireland
But you made a bad decision or two, yeah
[Outro]
You made a bad decision or two, yeah
You made a bad decision or two, yeah
You made a bad decision or two, yeah
You made a bad decision or two, yeah
Credits
Loamlands

Loamlands

About “Fall of the Star High School Running Back” by Loamlands

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"Fall of the Star High School Running Back" appears on "I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas" in 2017.

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