Death & Taxes

from Hell to Pay by Anthony Leon

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Well I’ve spent most of my life trying to figure out what’s right and where to cast the blame
Looking for the reasons why I fight so hard inside between my heart and my brain
Coming up with the same old conclusions, life ain’t but an illusion, money ain’t no thing
And there’s nothing I could ever own that I won’t have give to up on some dark day.

Take me home to where I belong to where momma’s laid down low.
And tell the man, I did the best I can so go on leave me to die there alone.

Something I can never understand does a good man have nothing cause he gives it all away
Or is a good man just a good man because he ain’t never had a dime to his name
Will I shake my fist at the philanthropist they give their money to those kind
I ain’t no communist but Jesus said you have to die to live or else your living to die

Take me home to where I belong to where momma’s laid down low.
And tell the man, I did the best I can so go on leave me to die there alone.

When I was a boy I had a girl that gave me love like I’ve never known
But she fell for a boy with a little more and that’s when I left my Virginia home
Now life has been train of pain with a few stops at the station for a good time
But soon that old whistle blows, and it’s time to move it on down the line.

Take me home to where I belong to where momma’s laid down low.
And tell the man, I did the best I can so go on leave me to die there alone.
And tell the man, I did the best I can so go on leave me to die there alone.

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from Hell to Pay, released April 20, 2013

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Anthony Leon Eustis, Florida

Anthony Leon is a ‘two steppin’, head bangin’ songbird. An energetic rock‘n’roll poet with a penchant for words and a passion for story – fancy boots, and a PBR t-shirt, a loose tongue and impressive side burns, driving 5 under on the highway with the windows down and the radio blaring. Anthony Leon is a storyteller, weaving his sermon of love and loss, feast & famine in with your own. . ... more

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