Tom Justice, The Choir Boy Robber, Apprehended At Ace Hardware in Libertyville, IL - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Steelman frame in a creek bed

took the money & you fled

counted months til they found you

they had your bike they were bound to 26 from here to home

26 no gun just notes

26 without a shot

that’s more than Bonnie & Clyde got

you know they called you the Choir Boy

before they had any hints

that you only ever pressed your palms

so you wouldn’t leave prints

don’t they say you can’t go home

Thanksgiving you should have known

read your rights & cuffed face down

in front of Ace Hardware in your hometown

order called & they read your name

on your feet as judgment came

all those times they thought you were praying

Tom you should’ve been praying

you know they called you the Choir Boy

the way you cleared those safes

but you only ever bowed your head

to keep your face off the tapes

& Tom I heard you were smiling

when the feds rushed in was it a kind of relief

to pay for your sin