Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - Switchblade lyrics

Went down to Mexico on the Fourth of July I got a tattoo of a moth and a bu*terfly Had a little time to burn, a little money to spend And so I bought a switchblade for each of my friends Pablo and Dan had a plan said "We're gonna get rich, Put the double cross on a double crossin' narco-snitch, Just a dirty little two-man job, but it's a sure-fire win And brother when we cut him down, we gonna cut you in." Yeah dumb and drunk as I was You know I'd do it all again Back when I bought a switchblade for each of my friends They were sharp enough to stab another hole in the sky Hard enough to make the proudest diamond sigh Faster than the rockets on the Fourth of July Strong and cruel enough to make a statue of Mary cry... They said, "Amigo don'tcha worry now we gonna disappear, Couple of months" they said. Now it's been almost a year I know that if you want that kind of money, man you gotta stay brave Federales are pullin' bodies out of shallow graves Yeah dumb and drunk as I was You know I'd do it all again Back when I bought a switchblade For each of my friends They were sharp enough to stab another hole in the sky Hard enough to make the proudest diamond sigh Faster than the rockets on the Fourth of July Strong and cruel enough to make a statue of Mary cry... Later in the fall, I got the call, "Boy won'tcha come down, Maybe put a name with a few unlucky faces we found." Now no matter what I do, can't get my heart to mend Somebody buried a switchblade in each of my friends Yeah dumb and drunk as we was You know I'd do it all again Before I buried a switchblade With each of my friends They were sharp enough to stab another hole in the sky Hard enough to make the proudest diamond sigh Faster than the rockets on the Fourth of July Strong and cruel enough to make a statue of Mary cry... Yeah, they were sharp enough to stab another hole in the sky Hard enough to make the proudest diamond sigh Faster than the rockets on the Fourth of July Strong and cruel enough to make a statue of Mary cry...