Mystery Mail-Cass McCombs

[ti:Mystery Mail] [ar:Cass McCombs] [al:Humor Risk] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mystery Mail - Cass McCombs [00:04.32]Mystery Mail [00:05.01] [00:06.16]It read I hope this finds you well [00:09.41]To no avail [00:11.33]You tipped the scale [00:13.12]Now I'll see you in hell [00:15.17] [00:30.48]Sailing over this story's arc [00:33.42] [00:37.71]A cardboard box that missed it's mark [00:41.45] [00:45.00]Like a comet seen at dusk [00:49.12] [00:52.40]Like the Mayan twins born of the husk [00:57.11] [00:59.69]We were raised and flew at the ver same height [01:04.19] [01:06.24]But feel individually from our flight [01:11.40] [01:18.68]I knew Daniel since high school in Benicia [01:22.86] [01:26.07]He sold cookies from his parents freezer [01:29.98] [01:33.21]But were we ever really ever close [01:37.64] [01:40.69]Now Daniel's gone and I'm his ghost [01:45.18] [01:48.86]He went north and I went east [01:52.95] [01:56.10]We had a plan or an idea at least [01:59.96] [02:07.10]From his cousin's lab in Crescent City [02:10.32] [02:14.46]Daniel packaged two pounds for speedy delivery [02:18.10] [02:21.63]USPS to Greenpoint Brooklyn [02:25.88] [02:29.31]Every gram sold while his cousin kept cooking [02:32.93] [02:36.80]Successfully this went on [02:40.44] [02:44.46]For oh I don't know how long [02:47.97] [02:55.03]One day I turned the corner onto India St [02:58.91] [03:03.11]I must have turned white as a sheet [03:06.52] [03:09.92]Three policemen were standing on my stoop [03:14.16] [03:17.36]Talking to my girlfriend Betty Boop [03:21.41] [03:24.98]I turned around never to see Betty again [03:28.53] [03:32.42]I'm sorry Betty I hope you understand [03:36.09] [03:43.31]I assumed they got to Daniel first [03:47.31] [03:50.63]In this line of work you come to expect the worse [03:54.62] [03:57.95]Some time later the smirk was wiped from my smile [04:01.93] [04:05.23]I was arrested for hopping a turnstile [04:09.16] [04:12.85]Bones had told the warrant cleared after eight years [04:16.99] [04:19.93]So naturally on my court date I failed to appear [04:23.75] [04:31.33]Eventually the cardboard comet had to fall [04:35.30] [04:38.47]I took a walk down the long hall [04:43.12] [04:46.10]The first thing I did from my cell [04:50.07] [04:53.24]Was write a letter in search of Daniel [04:57.20] [05:00.84]Daniel was indeed inside the lion's den [05:04.74] [05:07.88]Not the only Lionkiller in a California Sate Penn [05:12.10] [05:19.38]Daniel wrote me back in a matter of days [05:23.14] [05:26.94]No mention of whether or not crime pays [05:30.48] [05:33.85]He wrote You wouldn't recognize me anymore [05:37.72] [05:41.16]I bet you'd rather be back cleaning toilets in Baltimore [05:44.63] [05:48.98]I'll never make it out of this cell [05:52.66] [05:55.88]I guess the next time you see me will be in Hell [06:00.01] [06:07.73]The letters stopped rollin in [06:11.01] [06:14.98]I heard Daniel was stabbed with a ballpoint pen [06:18.60] [06:22.03]About sixty times by his cellmate Charles [06:25.92] [06:29.22]Now people talk about immortalizing him in marble [06:33.55] [06:36.54]Not everybody should be made a saint [06:40.60] [06:44.01]Daniel was good good guy but a saint he ain't [06:48.03] [06:55.32]Mystery Mail [06:56.76] [06:58.02]It read I hope this finds you well [07:00.52] [07:01.08]To no avail [07:02.21] [07:02.90]You tipped the scale [07:04.35]Now I'll see you in Hell [07:06.36] [07:10.64]Mystery Mail [07:11.54] [07:12.73]It read I hope this finds you well [07:15.15] [07:15.82]To no avail [07:17.58]You tipped the scale [07:19.08]Now I'll see you in Hell [07:20.94] [07:24.34]Mystery Mail [07:26.19] [07:27.38]It read I hope this finds you well [07:29.66] [07:30.57]To no avail [07:31.57] [07:32.26]You tipped the scale [07:33.82]Now I'll see you in Hell [07:35.42] [07:38.05]See you in Hell [07:39.03] [07:41.69]See you in Hell [07:42.71] [07:45.34]See you in Hell