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Originally posted by SigmaChiCard
"Percy's Song" is about his buddy going to jail for 99 years for "manslaughter, in the higest of degrees" when he was in a car accident claiming the lives of 4 others.
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That reminds me of Bruce Springsteen's entire "Nebraska" album. Brilliant, but it can make you want to crawl under your bed and not come out for a few days. "Johnny 99" is especially depressing, about a man who is laid off of his job and in a drunken rage shoots a clerk at a convenience store. When the judge sentences him to 99 years in prison, the man answers:
"Now, judge, judge I got debts no honest man could pay
The bank was holding my mortgage,
they were going to take my house away.
I'm not saying that makes me an innocent man,
but it was more than all this that put that gun in my hand.
Your honor, I do believe I'd be better off dead,
And if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head
Then sit back in that chair and think it over, Judge, one more time,
And let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line."
I'm listening to it right now. I think I'm going to fix a drink.
