POINT BLANK

Outtake 4

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 ran
And those pretty things baby wants baby has to earn
???
And now little girl all you're gonna get is

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, from no one survives

I dreamed I saw you standing on the porch were you grew
Your face was in the shadows but I knew that it was you
Like you were waiting for someone
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
??? baby walked away
Just staring like you were waiting, waiting to get blown away

Oh baby
Point blank right between the eyes
Point blank you've been fooled and girl that's a fact
You fell darling
Point blank you're in their sights
Point blank one false move and the lights go out
No doubt 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 5, and outtake 6, 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)