POINT BLANK

Outtake 6

Do you say your prayers little darlin
Do you go to bed at night
Pray that tomorrow, everything will be alright
But tomorrow's fall in number in number one by one
You wake up and you're dying
You don't even know what from
Well baby, point blank, you've been shot in the back
Point blank you been fooled little girl that's a fact
You fell darling, point blank, point blank

Baby if this world was mine
To do with what I want to do
I'd wrap it up in pretty bows
And I'd give it all to you
You were raised and so you learn
And those pretty things baby she has to earn
And wanting all those pretty things you cant ever have

Point blank right between the eyes
Point blank right between the lies they sell
You fell darling
Point blank, point blank, point blank

Well I vowed to take you sorrow
I swear that's what I'll do
And now come tomorrow
I swear that's what I'll do
???
Just trying to stay alive
Just running from ???
Where no one survives, baby no one survives

I dreamed I saw you standing on the porch of the house were you grew
Your face was in the shadows but I knew that it was you
Baby you were so pale, so tired baby, so young
You were just staring out on the highway like you were waiting for someone
And though you didn't say a word, I could tell that you didn't understand
You just stood there in the screen door, with your daddy's gun in your hand
And I'll never forget the way you looked when I walked away
You just stood there waiting, waiting to get blown away
Oh baby, Point blank between the eyes
Point blank with the pretty lies that they sell
You fell darling
Point blank, in their sights
??? and baby the lights go out, out darling
Point blank, point blank, point blank

This is one of the many outtakes that were recorded between Apr 1979 and Aug 1980. Check also outtake 1, outtake 2, outtake 3, outtake 4, and outtake 5, and also the live versions: 07 Jul 1978, 19 Sep 1978, and 15 Dec 1978, and see how this song evolved until the final album version.

Available on:

1. The River (disc 2- track 1)