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No Time to Be Scared because everything is just weird riff
the maitre'd turns into Sandra Dee
and the airport is full of frogs with fine English accents
must of been something i partook in
must be the way things roll now

Doctor of some specialized part of the so called body
comes through my window
has a secret plan to save everyone
i can't read it very well, it's written in some kind of
mystery that nobody has published a way to solve

Tonto and the Lone Ranger are waiting for me to finish this poem
they want me to ride out with them to Love Corral
their hearts are tired of doing good deeds
their hearts are breaking slow

I take them to the jazz river
the one you sang to me just now
i take them hopscotching
across a gin martini ocean

Every day here is Jack Elam
Could you hum a few bars right alongside me
The laser beam keeps missing us
Could be the house rules
Can't find the keys to climb back through

Take us all then to jazz river
the one that sings to me somehow
No Time to be Scared
weird judges make eerie jurisprudence
so what
no jail can smoke me
i'd go down raspy with promise

No disputin
Mr.Rasputin
blood in the mouthpiece of the horn he's tootin
blood and human
rolling in the dust

by the quiet crying water
by the everloving everlasting
no time to be scared

put your thin hand in mine
put your thin dime in time
don't bother betting
let your heart do the pumping

by the lack of a vocation water
by the altogether whatever
no time to be scared

here comes rain maybe
walk with me
i ain't bullet proof
but i will always try to give you a good time

                        ---Scott Wannberg



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