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Bullets In My Briefcase

from Airstream by FAT OPIE

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Won a national band search sponsored by MTV/7-UP and included a prize of $15,000.

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Bullets In My Briefcase

Written by: Scott Mickelson

As blue as acetylene
as pink as Jane Mansfield's house
I'm still breathing it in while you're
letting it out

I won't call you and it hurts like hell
I won't follow you and it hurts
like hell
I won't take the time to look you up
and it hurts like hell

You are a sense of great wonder
and I am evil and untrue
Besieged by armies I was fingered for murder
and it's all because of you

But I won't wake you and it hurts like hell
I won't shake you and it hurts
like hell
I won't take the time to take
you there
and it hurts like hell

I watch lie in wait
I'm on the prowl
Does it make me insane
that I want to be near you
I'm just trying to rid my brain
I better settle down

There's bullets in my briefcase
my hand is on the handle
I'm shaking in my shoes
And if you turn your pretty little back to me
There's no telling what I might do

But I wouldn't harm you and it
hurts like hell
I won't alarm you and it hurts
like hell
I might take the time to negotiate
and it hurts like hell

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from Airstream, released January 1, 1999

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FAT OPIE San Francisco, California

Lead by singer Scott Mickelson, FAT OPIE continues to paint both musical and lyrical portraits of contemporary life as an American. Their critically acclaimed new CD “Victoryville” is their best work yet.

“It's American folk-Rock with a post punk edge, rustic but scarred.”- Alternative Press Magazine

“Thom Yorke and Jeff Tweedy had a baby and named it Mumford.”- New Times (San Luis Obispo)
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