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pootschkiedoodems asked: remember that time you lost a fingernail? those was good times.
Every now and then, on a cold quiet, wet, sombre night, I think of the time I lost a fingernail. Then I vomit.
He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail. At six months old he’d done three months in jail. He robbed a bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet. All he said was “Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete.”
I’m Outlaw Pete! Can you hear me?
He cut his trail of tears across the countryside, and where he went, women wept and men died. One night he woke from a vision of his own death. Saddled his pony and rode her deep into the West. Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the res. And as the smoke fell he held that beautiful daughter to his chest
I’m Outlaw Pete. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
Out of the East on an Irish stallion came Bounty Hunter Dan. His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop. He said, “Pete, you think you’ve changed, but you have not.”
He cocked his pistol, pulled the trigger and shouted, “Let it stop!” He drew a knife from his boot and pierced Dan through the heart. Dan smiled as he lay in his own blood dying in the sun And whispered in Pete’s ear, “We cannot undo these things we’ve done.”
You’re Outlaw Pete. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
For forty days and nights Pete rode and did not stop. Till he sat high upon an icy mountain top. He watched a hawk on a desert updraft slip and slide, moved to the edge and dug his spurs deep into his pony’s side
Some say Pete and his pony vanished over the edge, some say they remain frozen high upon that icy ledge. The young Navajo girl washes in the river, skin so fair and braids a piece of Pete’s buckskin chaps into her hair
Outlaw Pete! Outlaw Pete! Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
The world is one great battlefield
With forces all arrayed.
If in my heart I do not yield,
I’ll overcome some day.
“And then he spotted Colback, walking alone, lost in the delirium of Sunderland’s best away win for four years. O’Neill hopped over and gave the 22-year-old midfielder a hug, whispering in his ear as he did so.”
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