{"id":386,"date":"2009-02-04T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T06:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2009-02-04T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T06:11:46","slug":"outlaw-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/outlaw-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; Outlaw (lyrics) &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2009_02_04_a.png\" title=\"... Outlaw ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Outlaw&#8221; (also released as &#8220;Gunslinger&#8221;) was one of the first songs I wrote during the initial writing phase of &#8220;Bits&#8221;.  I loved the game on the Atari 2600.  It is probably one of the best two player versus games ever made.  No joke.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the lyrics to the song.  It is one of the more straight ahead songs on the record and kicks off with a nice AM radio harmony.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOutlaw<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s a reason they will track you down<br \/>\nthis idea that we all know how<br \/>\nto lead ourselves when they are not around<br \/>\ndust and difference never settle out<\/p>\n<p>scattered across the earth<br \/>\nno end and no reserve<br \/>\nlisten and observe<br \/>\nthe sound of complaining<\/p>\n<p>this place can&#8217;t turn it around<br \/>\ndisplace it; turn it around<br \/>\na method to erase this; turn it around<br \/>\nif everyone exchanges we&#8217;ll turn it around<\/p>\n<p>so intent on dueling<br \/>\nstep ten paces<br \/>\nlook and see<br \/>\nit&#8217;s getting harder<br \/>\nto be an outlaw<\/p>\n<p>every corner called from to announce<br \/>\nthe most misleading offering allowed<br \/>\ncashing in rewards for those in doubt<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t we feel it; didn&#8217;t we all look down<\/p>\n<p>scattered across the earth<br \/>\nno end and no reserve<br \/>\nlisten and observe<br \/>\nthe sound complaining<\/p>\n<p>this place can&#8217;t turn it around<br \/>\ndisplace it; turn it around<br \/>\na method to erase this; turn it around<br \/>\nif everyone exchanges we&#8217;ll turn it around<br \/>\nso intent on dueling<br \/>\nstep ten paces<br \/>\nlook and see<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s getting harder<br \/>\nto be an outlaw\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Outlaw&#8221; (also released as &#8220;Gunslinger&#8221;) was one of the first songs I wrote during the initial writing phase of &#8220;Bits&#8221;. I loved the game on the Atari 2600. It is probably one of the best two player versus games ever &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/outlaw-lyrics\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; Outlaw (lyrics) &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,201],"tags":[85,175,579,58],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits-solo-record","category-lyrics","tag-atari-2600","tag-bits","tag-lyrics","tag-outlaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}