If you want to make the move
then you better come in
It's just the ability
to reason that wears
so thin
living and dying
and the stories
that are true
secret to a good life
is knowing when you're
through
Black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
He's back in the hole
where they got him
living like a rat
but he's smarter
than that nine lives
like a cat
fifteen years old
take him to the youth
authority home
first thing you learn
you got to make it
in this world alone
Black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
Now he's gotten
out he's gotten
free he's gotta go
gotta car
He's twenty one years old
he's running numbers
from the bar
His pager's beeping
he's got in deep in
whatever he can move on
in you know that
kid's a creeping
Black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
Black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac
the boy's a time bomb
yeah the boy's a time bomb
Tears come from
the razor that's been
tattooed below his eye
his mother cries
she knows that he is
strong enough to die
he's rollingin the Cadillac
it's midnight sunroof is down
Three shots rung out
the hero's dead
the new king is crowned
Black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
black coat white shoes
black hat Cadillac yeah
the boy's a time bomb
oh time bomb