This song wrote itself. I don't know how it works, but if you write everyday, sometimes you're rewarded. In the time it takes to write it down on paper, you're all done. No revisions - just like Mozart - and yes, you also have to have a very mean, reincarnated girlfriend.
-Big Monti
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lyrics
Cruel is Your Name
Bad don't mean nothing girl
Bad don't mean nothing
Standing next to you
Because cruel is your name
I must have been a bad man
In one of my past lives
Had my neighbor’s daughter
And ran off with his wife
I was a gangster or a lawyer
Any one of these will do
How else can I explain
How I ended up with you
Bad don’t mean nothin’
Standing next to you
‘cause cruel is your name
And hurtin’ me is what you do
I could have come back a politician
Or a crooked judge
A cop on the take
An ex-con with a grudge
A junkie or a murderer
Any one of these are fine
Instead I curse the day baby
That I made you mine
I hope that when I die
My payment plan is through
‘cause I can’t imagine playin’
Another lifetime with you
I don’t care if the devil himself
Take me for his own
Better that than the greatest heartache
The world has ever known
credits
from Straight Out!,
released April 1, 1990
Debbie Smith - bass
Cory Burden - drums
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