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Levi craves adventure
Wants to set the world on fire
He’d jump into the river
Wearing nothing but a tire

Aspires to do some damage
So he buys a rocket launcher
Then wakes up in a clinic
With a bill for orthodontia

Now the lazy boys on Cedar
Joke he thinks that he’s Tom Sawyer
Old Noah says, “Your life’s a crime
Go find yourself a lawyer”

He meets a woman, Mia
They buy from the same dealer
He compliments her laugh lines
She says, “I don’t wear concealer”

“You look just like Bonnie,”
Levi tells her as they ride
“Let’s buy some guns,” she answers
“Because that would make you Clyde”

They stop at their first bank
Teller says “You ain’t no Barrow”
And hits the panic button
Their escape is very narrow

Nighttime at the border
Seems the officer’s a sleeper
He wakes up, Mia shoots him
Now they’re in this so much deeper

A rundown Juarez shanty
They’re pinned down by federales
“Let’s get to Arizona --
Some good friends live in Nogales”

Minutes till they’re taken
So young Levi flicks a switchblade
“They say the next life’s better
Come on, we should make an upgrade”