The Taxpayers - Jimmy Bartlett’s Teeth Lyrics
There was this kid I used to know and he was born with thewrong name and I would walk with him to school every day. Ona cold October morning he was jumped by a gang of local highschool kids with pipes and rusty chains. When the ambulancearrived all his teeth were broken out and Jimmy Bartlettnever walked quite the same. Turns out the house that he grewup in had been stolen by a man 100 years before who shared his last name.And while we're talking about houses we grew up in, lemmetell you about mine: it was an honest little one story place.But when my mother died it became abandoned for a while, andwas quickly repossessed by the bank. But then in 1985 acouple neighborhood kids broke into the house through theback door. When the fire trucks arrived, it was burnt to theground. There ain't a sign of that house there any more.But that's alright.When I was nine years old I watched a kid get his legs brokenbecause of his last name. 17 years later, an arson fireburned down the house where I was born. There ain't no moralto any of that and there ain't nobody to blame. It was justone of those things.
