Cruel Is Your Name

from Straight Out! by Big Monti Amundson

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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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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

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from Straight Out!, released April 1, 1990
Debbie Smith - bass
Cory Burden - drums

copyright M. Amundson

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