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    "The Hot Sauce Device"  Parental Advisorygenre: Hip Hop
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    Consider the man on horseback, and i have been a man on horseback for most of my life. Well, mostly he is a good man, but there is a change in him as soon as he mounts. Every man on horseback is an arrogant man, however gentle he may be on foot. The man in the automobile is one thousand times as dangerous. I tell you, it will engender absolute selfishness in mankind if the driving of automobiles becomes common. It will breed violence on a scale never seen before. It will mark the end of the family as we know it, the three or four generations living happily in one home. It will destroy the sense of neighborhood and the true sense of nation. It will create giantized cankers of cities, false opulence of suburbs, ruinized countryside, and unhealthy conglomerates of specailized farming and manufacturing. It will make every man a tyrant. -R.A. Lafferty.
    CD: nope   Label: nope
    Credits: Ben FM, Kevorkian blows, Muus Duud

    Story Behind the Song
    Though born and raised a hooker's son on the overlit streets of Las Vegas, Ben hates Las Vegas...

    Lyrics
    Leaving Las Vegas

    Life springs eternal
    On a gaudy neon street
    Not that I care at all
    I spent the best part of my losing streak
    In an Army Jeep
    For what I can't recall
    Oh I'm banging on my TV set
    And I check the odds
    And I place my bet
    I pour a drink
    And I pull the blinds
    And I wonder what I'll find

    I'm Leaving Las Vegas
    Lights so bright
    Palm sweat, blackjack
    On a Saturday night
    Leaving Las Vegas
    Leaving for good, for good
    I'm leaving for good
    I'm leaving for good

    Used to be I could drive up to
    Barstow for the night
    Find some crossroad trucker
    To demonstrate his might
    But these days it seems
    Nowhere is far enough away
    So I'm leaving Las Vegas today

    I'm Leaving Las Vegas
    Lights so bright
    Palm sweat, blackjack
    On a Saturday night
    Leaving Las Vegas
    Leaving for good, for good
    I'm leaving for good
    I'm leaving for good

    I'm standing in the middle of the desert
    Waiting for my ship to come in
    But now no joker, no jack, no king
    Can take this loser hand
    And make it win

    I'm Leaving Las Vegas
    Lights so bright
    Palm sweat, blackjack
    On a Saturday night
    Leaving Las Vegas
    Leaving for good, for good
    I'm leaving for good
    I'm leaving for good

    I quit my job as a dancer
    At the Lido des Girls
    Dealing blackjack until one or two
    Such a muddly line between
    The things you want
    And the things you have to do

    I'm Leaving Las Vegas
    Lights so bright
    Palm sweat, blackjack
    On a Saturday night
    Leaving Las Vegas
    Leaving for good, for good
    I'm leaving for good
    I'm leaving for good

    I'm leaving Las Vegas
    And I won't be back
    No I won't be back
    Not this time

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