The Business Man Lyrics

[Verse - 1]
God, it never got easy, but it sure got good when the
Business man came to my adopted neighborhood
There was a bird I named Frank, a palace, a steeple, and a pile of
Blankets outside of Trinity Cathedral
Every weekday morning he would walk right by with a three piece suit, new shoes, and a tie
And this dead face, real hate in his eyes. In such a devilish way he would materialize
He was put there to rob from men like me – from the broken down scoundrels that live on the street
So I prepared for his initial attack; I said to myself, “Henry, you gotta watch your own back
You wanna make it outta here alive, you better learn to improvise


[Verse - 2]
” So there we were: one morning at dawn, he appeared at the church with the cold autumn fog, briefcase in hand, walking towards me
So I jumped from my blankets and sunk my teeth right into his ear and ripped it right off
Blood poured down onto his luxury watch
He ran away and I went back to sleep, and when the cops arrived, man, I was relieved
I said, “Thank god ya'll are here. This bastard in a business suit just tried to rob me
And you know what? I think he might have been the fucking devil.”


[Outro]

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As Henry, or Hank says on The Taxpayer’s Bandcamp description,

“And the best part about all of this is that I know you’re cheating me. And you know what I did to the last bastard that cheated me? “

He paused for a few silent, terrifying seconds.

“I bit his ear off.”

The ear-biting is in reference to this song, as he bites a man in a business suit’s ear off after believing he was the devil.

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