Cement Shoes

by Ira Marlowe (solo)

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CEMENT SHOES

Love is just
a mobster
Cupid dressed
in a great big suit with wide lapels
You should get
an honest job, sir
I can’t make another pass at her
I can’t take another massacre

Pour me out
my cement shoes
make ‘em wingtips
so I can’t lose
Teach me to dance the way those fallen angels do
Sure and smooth
nothing to prove

Love has led
me on so
Thought I found
the partner for my perfect crime
She belongs
to some guy named Alphonso
It’s all so sad, it’s such a waste
Open up that violin case

Pour me out
my cement shoes
make ‘em wingtips
so I can’t lose
Fly me away to heaven where there ain’t no blues
Just wingtip shoes
you can’t refuse

I’ll be dancin’
I’ll be dancin’
Won’t believe how long I waited
Who’d have ever thought that heaven
would be so underrated?
could be so underrated?

Pour me out
my cement shoes
make ‘em wingtips
‘cause I don’t wanna lose
there will be laughter
in the hereafter
broads and booze
So c’mon mister, pour me out my—
How’d I ever live without my—
Pout me out my cement
wingtip
shoes

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released September 1, 2010

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