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Breaking the Law to Get Your Baby Back to You

from The Ballad of Rusty Crates by Miscellaneous Plumbing Fixtures

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I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I feel the urgency with every stop sign I drive through
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you

I’m acting like signalling is just a suggestion
A suggestion I didn’t pay much mind
I’ve been grabbing what I need at the grocery
Running out the manager chasing me
And pocketing every bit of strangers change that I happen to find

Riding through every red light in the middle of mostly dead nights
Taking backroads wherever possible and leaving trucks and other cars way behind
We’ve been speeding through the great state of Illinois
A sense of determination and destination with not much joy
And I know you’d do the same if the foot was in the other shoe
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you

I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
Doing everything possible one man in a beat up ford could do
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you

We haven’t paid a motel check from Sioux City to Fort Wayne
Every cop in the state of Ohio will soon surely know my name
I feel bad but we’ve stiffed every single server
in every single road side diner
If I strike it rich, their families will never want for anything again

We’ve sped, shouted and barged our best through most of the great but flat midwest
Dodging or out running state troopers a 45 in the glove box as a last resort
We stole the collection plates from churches
Nothing but a steely eyed sense of purpose
And I don’t know if we’ll make it all the way, I haven’t got a clue
But I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you

But how did your baby get so far away
was it all the things you didn’t do and all the things you refused to say
If she was mine I wouldn’t ever let her go
And when she’s yours again you better behave as if you know
We moved earth and all the other planets
Turned ourselves into wanted bandits
Blew fuses and blew gaskets
Almost ended up in matching caskets

I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I don’t know if you deserve it but we persevered and saw it through
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you

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from The Ballad of Rusty Crates, released February 2, 2024
All songs written, performed and produced by Jon Cross of Miscellaneous Plumbing Fixtures.

Copyright Om/No Productions Music 2024

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Miscellaneous Plumbing Fixtures New Milford, Connecticut

Songwriting and banging your instruments together

The main thing I love to do is write songs. I pick up various instruments from ukulele to piano, accordion to percussion and electric guitar to harmonica and bang them about to try and get close to the noises I hear in my head but the writing comes first. ... more

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