Nicole Dollanganger – Alligator Blood (Guitar)

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Drinking a cup of alligator blood

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Tastes like the heads and feet we'd see

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For sale at the local pawn

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We'd make necklaces out of

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I'd wear them 'round my neck

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I'm a sucker for the love of the flesh

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All things rancid and delicate

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But the smell in the summer heat

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It still gets to me

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Knee-deep in the poacher's dream

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He dragged that thing out back and he

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Hung it upside down, slit its belly open

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And let it bleed out

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And he held my head and made me watch

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He filled my mouth up with its blood and said

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"Grow up weak or grow up tough"

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Playing in the swamp of alligator blood

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Behind our house in the marshy lawn

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He'd always hold my head

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Under the water a little too long

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'Cause he wanted me to be all guts, no glory

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"All survivor, no guilt," he said

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But he calls me his crocodile tears

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While I'm chained up to the bed

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Knee-deep in the poacher's dream

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He dragged that thing out back and he

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Hung it upside down, slit its belly open

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And let it bleed out

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And he held my head and made me watch

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He filled my mouth up with its blood and said

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"Grow up weak or grow up tough"

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When I was done

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Wiped my mouth on his sleeve

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I fucked the soul of the south but it crucified me