Shamrock

Lyrics

She met him after summer school Hiawatha bus stop In a knockoff Celtics jacket He said his crew, they call him Shamrock His mother died when he was five And his dad's some sort of drug cop But the apple sometimes rolls way down the hill Sabrina claimed the south side But really, she's from Richfield These invisible divisions Never seem like such a big deal She's been working at a wine bar Making jokes about the mouthfeel She sometimes takes twentiеs from the till Unprovoked and unadorned Whitе t-shirts and cut-off shorts Summer takes a shapeless form After dark and powder horn If you pool your funds together You're barely ever broke Walking up to SA to get smokes In the spring, they found some shambles The south suburban sprawl Sabrina's taking classes Shamrock's hanging drywall But his fingernails keep falling off And he comes home mean and sore Everyday he hates it more and more And the years go by and life goes on Nothing really happens School became a drag So she went back to be a waitress There isn't much to sit on When the old crew comes to visit So they all get high and pass out on the floor Then Shamrock just stops working Said, "It's such a meagre pittance Once they take the taxes out It's barely even worth it" And the TV's set to static There's drums off in the distance And their daughter's sleeping in a dresser drawer Unprescribed and unfulfilled Application's special skills She admits she sometimes still takes twenties from the till Shamrock's sick of trying to smile When he's holding in the smoke Got talking to this guy he sorta knows A call came in this evening From the county credit union Two guys with masks and pistols Crashed in as they were closing By the time the cruisers came around They'd grabbed the cash and scattered But the cameras always capture all the action So a trooper pulled him over On a vehicle description At a Hampton Inn in Hudson 'Bout a mile into Wisconsin When the footage ran on News at 9 She could tell that it was Shamrock In that ragged satin jacket that says "Boston" Unrehearsed and unprepared To be the only one who cares For a daughter who keeps asking 'bout her father They pooled their funds together But somehow she's still broke Walking up to Speedway to get smokes Walking up to Speedway to get smokes