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Run on the Banks Lyrics by The Stanfields

Death & Taxes

2012

[Verse 1]
When I came home from the Anzio shore
I got me a job at a Shiretown store
I married up quick, we had the one son
My limit was hit, and my race was run
We raised him right, we put him through school
With a gentle embrace and an iron rule
Our world was shattered when we lost our son
To the business end of a gangster's gun
[Chorus]
How do you go from the Bernhardt Line
To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
How do you live with a lingering ghost?
With a run on the banks
With a run on the banks
[Verse 2]
When they buried my boy of 22 years
I swore I'd do more than choke on my tears
So I hardened up my heart, I took up the oath
And looked for ways to avenge us both
Me and his mother, we never were the same
She left me one spring, and I am to blame
I forgot about living, forgot about her
Forgot about love and the way things were
[Chorus]
So how do you go from the Bernhardt Line
To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
How do you live with a lingering ghost?
With a run on the banks
With a run on the banks
[Verse 3]
Sixteen guns, 25 kilos
A couple thousand rounds when we run her aground
The crew bailed out, and headed for the hills
With a barrel of blow and a mountain of pills
No arrest in her majesty's waters
No victory for the mothers and fathers
Of the young and the damned
The guilty walk free
To continue their trade on a cruel black sea
[Chorus]
How do you go from the Bernhardt Line
To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
How do you live with a lingering ghost?
With a run on the banks
With a run on the banks
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"Run on the Banks" appears on "Death & Taxes" in 2012.

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