He Got Away With It Lyrics

There's broken glass on the pavement

Someone's gotten mad

Ken left the bottle shattered, he left a lot of chatter

After he asked for the tab

He looked the part of a monster

He seemed and acted tough

And he showed us all from the time he was thirteen

That he could back it up

Ken shot Romaine in the belly

Tryna chase him off his farm

Romaine made it, God bless him

But that was just the start

He's scooped up Trena

Before she could even drive

She left him for her parents' house

But when the house went up in flames they barely made it out alive

And he got away with it

We turned our heads and looked away

He got away with it

Before we could end up the same

One afternoon Ken's daughter took some candy

From Bo's store

And when Ken was told to give it back

He was upset for sure

Well I bumbled into the store

The very next day

But Bo was nowhere to be found

Ken had shot him point blank

In the past kens lawyer

Got him outta trouble with the law

The judge skipped out

And I heard his lawyer's got ties to the mob

When his day came in court

A new prosecutor took the job

Secured Ken's first conviction in thirty years

But he loosened up the charge

And it felt like

He got away with it

Two years don't quite fit the crime

He got away with it

And Bo's life was put on the line

So we met up at a town hall

To address the stakes at hand

Dread filled the air when it hit us

Ken ran this land

Somebody piped up

And said he's at the tavern

So we shuffled out into the street

To find out what was the matter

We crowded around Ken's car

To look that monster in the face

When gunfire rang out

Ken died that day

A silence fell over the crowd

We knew who was to blame

But no witnesses no crime

We took the shooters name to the grave

And he got away with it

We turned our heads and looked away

He got away with it

Cause nobody saw a thing

He got away with it

We turned our heads and looked away

He got away with it

And nobody saw a thing