Vastator
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- Oct 14, 2014
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I've had this song stuck in my head all day loooong! It isn't new to me. I've known it word for word since childhood. But for some reason it popped into my head at work today and I can't shake it!
The story it tells is quite leading. Yet ambiguous. It kinda glosses over Panchos death. The character the song starts out telling you about... Seems important to the story. But then it shifts to telling us about Lefty. And doing so in terms that make it seems like Lefty isnt doing so well, after that day in the desert.
It isn't often a song comes along and poses such an interesting "whodunit".
But this one has me kinda stumped.
At this point I'm ready to chalk it up to; Pancho pulled off a job too big and dangerous, the only way out for Lefty was to kill Pancho and split with the spoils, which he wasted away in seclusion, in regret for his betrayal?
Any thoughts?
Here's the Lyric version of that helps...
The story it tells is quite leading. Yet ambiguous. It kinda glosses over Panchos death. The character the song starts out telling you about... Seems important to the story. But then it shifts to telling us about Lefty. And doing so in terms that make it seems like Lefty isnt doing so well, after that day in the desert.
It isn't often a song comes along and poses such an interesting "whodunit".
But this one has me kinda stumped.
At this point I'm ready to chalk it up to; Pancho pulled off a job too big and dangerous, the only way out for Lefty was to kill Pancho and split with the spoils, which he wasted away in seclusion, in regret for his betrayal?
Any thoughts?
Here's the Lyric version of that helps...
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