Name: One Word
Duration: P00H03M37S
Description: This song is a riddle, and the answer is one word. Take your best guess.

One Word

by Ethan Cantrell

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This song is a riddle, and the answer is one word. Take your best guess.

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I am the tall man
I'm the shadow on your wall man
Well I'm the one who's with you day and night
No matter where you're standing in the dark or light

I am your right hand
I'm the devil in your best friend
Well I'm the one whisper in your ear
That fills you up with paranoia and fear

I am your Uncle Sam
In Iran and Vietnam
Well I'm the mother heard screaming in the night
When she finds her man with another man's wife

I am the coal that's burning
In your guts when you start hurting
I'm a dish served country-friend
A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye

I am the small man
I'm the hiding inside of your walls man
Well I'm the bed bugs crawling in your sleep
Crawling into your ears and then inside of your dreams

I am the gun in your hand
When you meet your local politician
Well I'm the double charge on the receipt
That you never saw til you had nothing to eat

I am the glaze on your ham
That you couldn't afford on Thanksgiving
Well I'm the crabs sitting in the sand
That pinches your ass when you're trying to tan

I am the coal that's burning
In your guts when you start hurting
I'm a dish served country-friend
A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye

I am the cartoon man
From the Uchiha clan
Well I'm your holiday's big surprise
When you wake up and your lover can't open their eyes

I am the blood on your hands
When you take the life of another man
Well I'm the cries in the middle of the night
When you take the life of another man's wife

I am the local lawman
And I'm coming for the man with the blood on his hands
And I swear there will be peace in the streets
Until I strike again and then the cycle repeats

Because I am the coal that's burning
In your guts when you start hurting
I'm a dish served country-friend
A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye

I am the coal that's burning
In your guts when you start hurting
I'm a dish served country-friend
A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye

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released December 1, 2022

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