Billy

"Billy" is a song by Root!, released as a bonus track with the iTunes digital edition of their concept album Surface Paradise on 7th August 2009.
Early live performances of "Billy" featured a melody later heard in "DC Root's Failure".
==Lyrics==
:Yeah, yeah!
:Well, Billy was the football captain, apple of mum's eye
:With the finest education a second mortgage could buy
:But Billy dreamed of outlaw legends in the wild wild west
:Where you could win a Brownlow and fail a drug test
:His mother saw what that could mean and so she sat him down
:And made her Billy promise:
:Billy, don't go chasing thrills. Bill, stay home with your mum, son.
:Billy, Mama knows best. Bill, don't be like the rest, son.
:Billy, don't take your guns to town.
:Still Billy still dreamed of football fame and all that it could bring
:Not so much the running round - but the tarts and blow and bling
:He'd gaze over to the west, see his name in lights
:As he sat back at Hungry Jacks with his Coke and ice
:He dreamed of meeting those kind of handymen who'd only fix a match
:Or throw a gas stove off the side of a boat, with someone attached
:He'd have the cops in his pocket, a sawn-off in his boot
:He'd know where Ronnie Biggs hid the loot
:He'd even know the guys in Root
:What would it be like to have real power - not just messing round?
:But in his head his mothers words:
:Billy, don't you be a star. Bill, don't show them what you are, son.
:Billy, don't go chasing thrills. Bill, stay home with your mum, son.
:Billy, don't take your guns to town.
:Word of Billy's awesome talent found its way out west
:His standing jump right off the graph, his beep test better than the rest
:That November day they picked him, his sobbing mother prayed
:But Bill just said "such is life" and just slipped on his shades
:He signed his Faustian pact right there - and now he's going down
:'Cos Bill forgot his mothers words:
:Don't take your guns to town.
:Billy, way to pass the test. Bill, Don't be at your best, son.
:Billy, it's the Captain and the Vice. Bill, in this Surface Paradise, son.
:It's more than a game
:Don't let them send you way out west
:You'll wind up in a house of pain
:Defibrillators on your chest
:Don't take your guns to town.
== See also ==
* "DC Root's Failure"
==External links and references==
*The TISM Wiki at archive.org
*Surface Paradise iTunes edition at Discogs
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