Matt Shadows their lead singer says the song was written as per request from the developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Watching the initial trailers for the game & looking at production sketches reminded him of the 'S-Town' podcast & its main protagonist, John B. McLemore. Matt also comments specifically on the lyrics: "I decided that the lyrics would shadow McLemore's life." In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show 'This American Life' asking them to investigate an alleged murder in his hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a place McLemore claimed to despise. After a year of exchanging emails & several months of conversation with McLemore, producer Brian Reed traveled to Woodstock to investigate. Reed investigated the crime & eventually found that no such murder took place, though he struck up a friendship with the depressed but colorful character of McLemore. He recorded conversations with McLemore & other people in Woodstock. McLemore killed himself by drinking potassium cyanide on June 22, 2015 while the podcast was still in production. In the narrative of the podcast, this occurs at the end of the second episode; subsequent episodes deal with the fallout from McLemore's death while exploring more of McLemore's life & character.
you can't walk the walk, but you spoke the speak
you say you're a badass, but I still think you're weak
it's been way too long since an ass whippin' went down
you beat up my cousin, so now we'll have to throw down
so you say, that you're a rebel, you pump that bass
turn down the treble, if it turns ya on, come down tonight,
I guarantee - we'll have a fight.
my buddy buck, has brought our boys, just in case we'ze
needs our boys, you better show, or buck will spit, and cuss
and yell and throw a fit...
you say you're a badass, but I still think you're weak
it's been way too long since an ass whippin' went down
you beat up my cousin, so now we'll have to throw down
so you say, that you're a rebel, you pump that bass
turn down the treble, if it turns ya on, come down tonight,
I guarantee - we'll have a fight.
my buddy buck, has brought our boys, just in case we'ze
needs our boys, you better show, or buck will spit, and cuss
and yell and throw a fit...
Lyrics submitted by tender_rive
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