Edwin McCain – Bitter and Twisted

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  General Comment:This is one of my favorite songs from Edwin. This whole CD was pretty rocking, (Lost in America), which is unusual for Edwin, but I think it worked great, and this song is no exception! A lot of the the hard rock influence came from Pete Riley I'm sure.
  
  
  This song is of course about Mark David Chapman and his desire to gun-down John Lennon in December of 1980. Lennon's nickname was "the Walrus", he wrote the song "Happiness is a Warm Gun" for the Beatles White album, "Give Peace a Chance" was an anti-war anthem written by Lennon in 1969, and he was shot outside of his apartment building, the "Dakota building". The rest of the lyrics mostly deal with Chapman's "bitter and twisted" mindset, because he shot Lennon for no good reason except that he was mentally deranged.
  
  

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  Lyric Correction:Bitter and Twisted
  
  Born killer, bitter and twisted
  Taking it out on your mother and sister
  White Lie, I’ve been a bad boy
  Does anyone know the way out of the freak-show
  
  Kill-joy, Johnny-come-lately
  He’s taking my fame, driving me crazy
  Child star, messing with fire
  Gun’s in my hand and I’m walking the wire
  
  Chorus
  Could it be I’m not worth saving
  Do you see any redemption for my soul
  I believe I can make it
  When the darkness comes down on me
  
  
  Outside Dakota Building
  The walrus cried out but no one was listening
  He said happiness is a warm gun
  Give peace a chance, it will work in the long run
  
  (chorus)
  
  It’s so wasteful
  And distasteful
  What can we destroy
  
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