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Guys on Every Corner

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Guys on Every Corner
Bleed Out

Album

Bleed Out

Released

August 19, 2022

Length

3:13

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Guys on Every Corner is the eighth song on Bleed Out. It appears as the fourteenth song on the 2022 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5.

Lyrics[]

From the front door to the drugstore
From the drugstore to the bakery
From the loading dock to the chimes of the city clock
They're about to make their play for me 

But I will rise 'cause I got guys
Guys on every corner 

With your tabloid stars and your unmarked cars
With your special forces and your inside sources
With your radar fields and your riot shields
And heavy horses 

I'm coming to swat you down like flies 
'Cause I got guys
Guys on every corner

They don't look so special 
T-shirts and tennis shoes
Blank expressions 
A couple of Chicago guys
A robust East Bay delegation

From the far ends of the earth 
They have loosely gathered
To stand in doorways making small talk 
About the weather
They look like nothing
They look like your neighbors
You won't remember their faces later

Run like rats, look to the skies
'Cause I got guys
Guys on every corner

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

  • “That is a stakeout song that comes from a lot of these action movies, especially Italian ones, but also plenty of American ones—mafia or various mafia-adjacent things. I like the element of sort of a private militia that is lurking everywhere.” via https://music.apple.com/us/album/bleed-out/1622211546

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