The Ballad of Gordon Biehl Lyrics

'Gordon Biehl liked to laugh a lot'

Read the note on the mirror

Then he went and got himself caught

In a routine traffic stop

Kind of like another planet

Something out of this world

No stranger to the lonely terrain

Still stuck in the steel

Woke up to an arrow in my front door

Gordon never calls me anymore

Neighborhood kids climbing up the ladder

"Just to see what they could!"

Said the old man down at the bar

Staying longer than he should

Paperboy trapped in the shed

Pipebomb sitting on his nightstand

Gordon never thought he'd get caught

A friend once said

"The world's a crooked place on Howard Avenue"

Then he said, "Alright boys, that's it, I'm out

This one here is on the house!"

Then he grabbed his keys

And he walked out

Started up the engine on a cold winter night

You know, where the red lights

Turn to stops

In the night

He said, "I swore I saw Mr. Gordon Biehl drive-by, collar down with a smile"