Hey You Bastards I'm Still Here (Live) Lyrics & Tabs by Mark Kozelek
Hey You Bastards I'm Still Here (Live)
guitar chords lyrics
when I was a kid I read the Satanic Bible
I was bored, got it at the mall in Ohio
when I was older I moved out to the Bay
and at a music store, hey, I met Anton Lavey
he was dapper and he had two strippers with him
he played organ with expertise and precision
I got invited to his house in '97
with my friend Becky there was some kind of get-together
I didn't go 'cause I had somethin' or other
then he died that year in late October
and if I'm ever near the corner he lived on
I always think about the day I met Anton
his old Victorian was black as bondo
they tore it down now a shiny new condo
when I was a kid I saw the movie Papillon
with my father it left an impression on
me, the headhunters and the leper colony
devil's island and the Dustin Hoffman bowl scene
I watched the movie a hundred fifty times
I can recite every one of the script lines
to this day the last scene brings me to tears
when Steve McQueen says "Hey you bastards I'm still here!"
we watched a lot of TV, kung-fu and baretta
Robert Blake wore a cockatoo on his shoulder
and you couldn't help but to love David Carradine
kickin' the white man's ass in every scene
well I can't help but to think of my father and me
when I see old movies with Steve McQueen
well I can't help but to think of my father and me
when I hear the name David Carradine
when I was a kid I went to the cue-n-cushion
there were pool tables and deadbeats drug pushin'
I'd buy joints in the bathroom for a dollar
smoke 'em down along the Tuscarawus River
I'd sit alone and I'd feel inspired
I wanted out of the home of the Masillon Tigers
at night I watched Johnny Carson televise in L.A.
I knew I'd live on the west coast one day
and when I'm back home I remember the old days
when I walk along Lincoln way
and when I'm back home I remember the old days
when I walk along Lincoln way
