Mark (Song)

"Mark" is the twelfth track of Katy Shaw and the Search for the Stolen Secret.

## Lyrics

[CHORUS:]

They come to hunt the poor man

When his luck runs out

They come to hunt, they come to take you

Down, down, down

[MARK:] *(spoken)*

So I'm at the bar with Ramon and the boys and Ramon’s like, "Hey, I know this sweet score but it's gonna take some cohones," and he starts talking about some hush-hush secret super soldier program the government's got going and how they got this guy who’s half machine and they’re trying to build phase two which is, like, either an army of robot fairies for him to lead or some kind of tank they attach his bottom half to, and Ramon doesn't know but there's this tinker’s shop where they’re putting the plans together and every Thursday some government liaison goes there to meet with this tinker and some guy named Lloyd and some woman named Llewellyn who they say is related to Edgar McAlistair, like THE Edgar McAlistair, and they got these plans there and if we steal them we could start a bidding war between the government and resistance and it'd be the biggest payday ever seen but I'm like, "Hell no, that's how to get killed!" But then later as we’re getting drunk, Brandon's starting in on me, how I'm a lame thief and I don't have the sauce for it, and finally I'm like, "Screw you, Brandon! Me and Ramon are gonna steal these plans and it'll be epic and I’ll show you!"

[CHORUS:]

They come to hunt the poor man

When his luck runs out

They come to hunt, they come to take you

Down, down, down

[MARK:] *(spoken)*

So we do the job but it all goes completely wrong 'cause that Llewellyn woman was there and she scared Ramon, who shot her, and I'm like, “Hell no, I didn't sign up for no murder charge!” 'Cause I ain't never seen someone killed before and it's not good, it's not good at all! And so I'm puking on the floor, but we did get these plans in this folder but they’re weird, bruh, I don't even know what they're for and we get away, and so later that night we’re at Ramon's celebrating, except I'm not celebrating, I'm crying and sobbing - wait, no, don't tell Brandon I said that! I totally didn't cry. I'm, like, stone cold. So anyway, Ramon won't let go of the plans, he’s clutching them and he’s getting lit on this drug called TanSan, like completely blitzed out, and suddenly he just disappears! Like, one second he’s on the sofa and the next he’s gone and I'm like, “Woah, this is like end-up-in-the-psych-ward stuff!” And he stays gone for like two hours but then two hours later he just pops right back in with some story about going back in time to a prairie, only he had the plans with him but he dropped them there and didn't bring them back and right then we hear sirens!

[CHORUS:]

They come to hunt the poor man

When his luck runs out

They come to hunt, they come to take you

Down, down, down

[MARK:] *(spoken)*

So I just bail and Ramon was behind me, but because he’s all drugged out, he’s slow and the cops nab him, but I just keep running and I head underground thinking maybe I’ll go hide with the voodoopunks but the tunnels under the city are like a maze, bruh, and there’s, like, weird people down here so I gave up on that, wandering around in the dark is not my thing. I figure I’ll just stay outta sight up here and the next thing I know, I'm hearing they interrogated Ramon to death and they're after me, so I’ve been hiding and running and I'm not doing too well, but that's not all 'cause now they’re rounding up every druggie they can get their hands on and word is they got this big warehouse they’re sticking them all in and they’re force-feeding them Tansan until one of them blips like Ramon and goes to that prairie place and brings them back their folder and if your girl was taken, that's where she is and you just better hope she hasn't dropped dead of a drug overdose because they’re burning through druggies and I'm sorry, but that's all I can help you with 'cause I'm staying out of sight until this whole thing blows over and if you were smart, you’d stay out of it too, but either way nice to meet you, good luck and I'm out of here!

[CHORUS:]

They come to hunt the poor man

When his luck runs out

They come to hunt, they come to take you

Down, down, down