bp deignanRunning With The Gang Rock

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Inspired by the 1938 Film "Angels With Dirty Faces" written and performed by Brian P Deignan

boys of 8 all innocence and youth Fantasyland's a million miles from the truth seemed we'd do anything, anything for fun cops and robbers, make believe bullets - plastic guns tra la la we sang 15 years old children of the streets walking a fine line where fun and crime meet I saw Billy graduate to stealing cars spending money, chasing women - hanging out in bars tra la la he sang running with the gang he stayed 16 when I turned 21 bigger money, faster women, faster cars and a shootout at a liquor store late one night black and whites, flashing lights - they read him his rights "didn't doing he sang you see I was just running with the gang" said he wasn't supposed to be there when it all went down got talked in to it by two outta town clowns but in the street a body lay his lawyer told the press he'd have nothing to say convicted of murder in the commission of a felony his mother's sobs a heartbreaking melody now when I see kids playing I think of him then and remember a time - a time when tra la la we sang tra la la we sang tra la la we sang running with the gang x

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