South Of The South-David Dondero

[ti:South Of The South] [ar:David Dondero] [al:South Of The South] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]South Of The South - David Dondero [00:27.23]I was just a tender chicken in the florida rotisserie [00:31.60] [00:32.36]My own sweat's basting me [00:34.71]Thunder storms are chasing me [00:36.71]I bit into a lighting bolt [00:39.27]My own tongue began to smoke [00:41.30]I woke up with an empty mouth [00:43.87]Watched the watch tick backwards [00:45.97] [00:49.57]South of the south [00:51.94] [00:55.16]The csx vibrates the tracks [00:57.72] [00:58.27]Mighty roaring shakes the shacks [01:00.38]Purple skies and orange moons [01:02.45] [01:03.00]Plants are confident in june [01:04.88]The humidity it's thick you can cut it with a knife [01:09.32]If you'd like to take a breath here honey [01:12.79]I'm gonna cut you out a slice [01:15.71] [01:18.73]So I developed gills and I moved into the aquifer [01:23.61]Fell asleep in wakulla springs [01:26.33]Woke up down in jupiter [01:28.01]Than I moved back to the land [01:30.22] [01:30.89]High into an orange tree [01:32.85]Was set for life with citrus [01:35.02]But my body couldn't take this [01:37.86] [01:41.77]Acidity [01:43.77] [01:46.90]So strolled down to miami [01:49.08]Tried to find myself some friends [01:51.19] [01:51.89]Found myself in south beach [01:53.86]And I met some mannequins [01:55.68]Who smelled of coconuts and coppertone [01:58.79]Like those smells real well [02:00.86]But as far as conversations go [02:03.37]I guess that it stopped at the start [02:07.00] [02:10.29]Of the smell [02:12.00] [02:14.98]It was elvis and sinatra [02:17.01]Now where's your wallet man I got ya' [02:19.67]But now if you're poor like me [02:21.54]They let poor people like me be [02:23.86]They say that north beach is a war zone [02:26.85]High rise hotels hollowed out [02:29.02]But now we were living large [02:31.79] [02:32.34]We were stepping out [02:33.86]Into a thirty dollar beach front motel [02:37.63]Down south of the south [02:40.22] [02:42.70]South of the south [02:45.31] [02:46.04]Down in north miami [02:48.18]South of the south [02:49.74] [02:50.69]Me my old lover terry [02:52.97]South of the south [02:54.87] [02:55.47]We were practically married [02:59.76] [03:02.48]So I jumped my pogo stick [03:04.85]All the way to ybor city [03:07.20]Where they burned up a couple blocks [03:09.52]And to me seemed like a pity [03:11.70]That was once a cuban district and a center for the arts [03:16.46]Was now a mall like atmosphere [03:19.29]Homogonous and insincere [03:21.65]They burned it's heart right out [03:24.95]Down south of the south [03:27.65] [03:30.94]So I became the snake bird [03:33.90]An old swamp turkey [03:35.43]And some redneck tried to shoot me [03:37.79]Tried to make swamp turkey jerky [03:40.15]But I evaded all his bullets [03:42.66]And I flew into the gulf [03:44.48] [03:45.00]And I jumped upon a west wind out to a safer heaven [03:49.66]Out near alcaniz and balin [03:52.43]Down south [03:53.48] [03:56.15]South of the south [03:58.30] [04:01.14]In the town of pensacola [04:03.88]Riding bikes like we were kids [04:05.89] [04:06.47]Over cobble stones and brick [04:08.42]They fenced moonlit bridge [04:10.88]There's a sandlot shotgun shack [04:13.55]Tin roof all rusted out [04:15.71]And there's a couch on every front porch [04:18.40] [04:19.00]Flapping screen doors [04:21.47]Ants on the apple cores [04:23.34]Pop's boiled peanuts and more [04:26.32] [04:26.86]Down south [04:28.58] [04:29.84]South of the south [04:31.62] [04:34.07]South of the south [04:36.64] [04:37.25]South of opelika [04:39.49]South of the south [04:40.85] [04:41.93]Do south of tuscaloosa [04:43.81]South of the south [04:45.86] [04:46.51]South of old alpharetta [04:48.64]South of the south [04:50.38] [04:51.24]South south carolina [04:53.43]South of the south [04:54.96] [04:56.28]Down south of the south of the south