[00:15.32]Drinking a cup of alligator blood[00:20.02]tastes like the heads and feet we'd see[00:24.67]for sale at the local pawn[00:29.54]We'd make necklaces out of[00:35.10]I'd wear them round my neck[00:37.17]I'm a sucker for the love of the flesh[00:40.91]All things rancid and delicate[00:44.56]but the smell in the summer heat[00:50.39]it still gets to me[00:54.33][00:55.35]Knee-deep in the poacher's dream[00:59.80]he dragged that thing out back and he[01:04.40]hung it upside down and slit its belly open[01:09.87]and then he let it bleed out[01:15.18]He held my head and made me watch[01:19.68]Filled my mouth up with its blood and said,[01:26.82]"Grow up weak or grow up tough"[01:36.88][01:45.69]Playing in the swamp of alligator blood[01:50.40]behind our house in the marshy lawn[01:55.11]he'd always hold my head[01:59.67]under the water a little too long[02:05.54]Cuz he wanted me to be all guts no glory[02:10.76]"All survivor,no guilt" he said[02:14.96]But he calls me his crocodile tears[02:19.86]while I'm chained up to the bed[02:25.43][02:25.88]Knee-deep in the poacher's dream[02:30.03]he dragged that thing out back and he[02:35.25]hung it upside down and slit its belly open[02:40.56]and then he let it bleed out[02:45.78]He held my head and made me watch[02:50.79]Filled my mouth up with its blood and said,[02:57.57]"grow up weak or grow up tough"[03:07.66][03:16.62]When I was done - wiped my mouth on his sleeve[03:26.02]I ****ed the soul of the south[03:30.17]but it crucified me[03:35.13]