I know it's hopeless, Hell
Ain't big enough to hold us back.
Come on, let's pick a fight.
We hunt for trouble tonight.

I know it's hopeless, Hell
Ain't big enough to hold us back.
Come on, boys, we're right!
We hunt for trouble

Tonight, tonight, tonight.
Tonight, tonight, tonight.
Tonight, tonight, tonight.
You know we're right!

We hunt for trouble
With our fingers dipped in blood.
We hold the rifles
With a hangman's heart.

If reunited
'Fore the last sun lie,
The snake
They cut in the parts
That come back alive for 'em.

Brother Benjamin is off in France.
We're taking Trenton back again.
The garrison of Hessians will fall.
They say Delaware will freeze a man.

We chasin' sovereigns
Across the Styx and dodging ice floes.
It's all on Honeyman,
Our mole inside the ivy that grows.

So unnatural to see this leaf
So far from its home.
Must deracinate the weed,
Drive it out of the loam.

I know it's hopeless, Hell
Ain't big enough to hold us back.
Come on, let's pick a fight.
We hunt for trouble tonight.

I know it's hopeless, Hell
Ain't big enough to hold us back.
Come on, boys, we're right!
We hunt for trouble

Tonight, tonight, tonight.
Tonight, tonight, tonight.
Tonight, tonight, tonight.
You know we're right!

With fingers frozen from tracking
And groping and trapping,
Found the trouble and coupled
At the mouths that prize the purse from the apt.

And the victim claimed by the slow mechanism
That broke its opponents back.
While the crimson coats were bending elbows in half,
WE ATTACKED!

I know you noticed the battle.
It don't need quoting.
It's spoken over ad nauseum.
Darling, the sharpest story.

Every veteran, politician, talking head'll
Get on the pedestal,
Spin the saga any way
That will make their means our end.

We, we've got ourselves a fight song
For the wool they'll pull over your eyes.
Tell the devil that we're coming right home
Tonight, tonight.

I know it's hopeless, Hell
Ain't big enough to hold us back.
Come on, let's pick a fight.
We hunt for trouble tonight!

I know it's hopeless, Hell
Ain't big enough to hold us back.
Come on, boys, we're right!
We hunt for trouble

Tonight, tonight, tonight.
Tonight, tonight, tonight.
Tonight, tonight, tonight.
You know we're right!

ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR.

I know it's hopeless, Hell
Ain't big enough to hold us back.
Come on, let's pick a fight!
We hunt for trouble tonight!

I know it's hopeless, Hell
Ain't big enough to hold us back.
Come on, boys, we're right!
We hunt for trouble

Tonight, tonight, tonight.
Tonight, tonight, tonight.
Tonight, tonight, tonight.
You know we're right!


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    hahah one more i think it's "the garrison of hessians will fall" not "The garrison that has the ends will fall"

    i really should've put this in one comment sorry bud

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