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lyrics

THE PUNCHING BAG
CHORUS
My pretty little punching bag
My pretty little punching bag
Punch him back
My pretty little punching bag
You my pretty little punching bag
Why don’t
You just punch him back?
Punch him back

And if you rollin with the punches
Then punches just keep on comin
And if you not punchin back
Don’t tell me you are not
A punching bag
Now – how many times

Did it happen like this?
You stand there pissed
With a balled-up first
With a knot in your throat
Got rocked with a blow
Got knocked to the floor
But you didn’t do sh sh sh sh sh…
Way too scared, it’s not fair
Look around the room
And you’re team’s not there
You all alone
Gotta find your phone
Gotta find your way home and
Yeah right he was bigger than you
And yeah right
It was him and his crew
But, least you coulda done…
Thrown a punch
Or not apologize
For the shoulder bump
That set the whole thing off
In the first place
Now you lookin in the street
For some first aid
The other guy’s out runnin around
And you on 1st Ave
With blood in your mouth
What a jerk, what a toy
Pathetic boy
So uffin sad, guess guess guess
That’s why they call you that:
The human punching bag

CHORUS

The punching bag was specifically
Designed to absorb pain
To receive punishment
To take the impact of the fist
Again and again and again
In that moment – of the impact
The punching bag is,
For the person
Attached to the fist,
Every wrong that needs correction
Every thing
That should be punched
The bag,
A self-proclaimed pacifist,
Is born taught and tough
But eventually begins
To sag and wheeze
And even spill its innards
When the punchers knuckles
Begin to bruise
He blames the bag
He punches again, this time
With all his might
And the bag swings wildly
Barely conscious now
Swinging back, the heavy bag
Catches the proud puncher unaware
But this is no victory
Just an accidental retribution
Soon to be forgotten
Because after all, nobody
Nobody gives a god damn
About the punching bag
And the truth is
If he had hands
The punching bag
Would probably punch himself too
It is all he knows…

CHORUS

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from What's It Gonna Be?, released November 22, 2010

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Progressively dope, humanist hip-hop. Brooklyn. No School. All DIY everything.

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