Finking on your own mom: one shot of whisky. Blackmarket gun: $2. Bandage for the gunshot wound: $100. A Dancehall girl's crooked smile: $1,000. Listening to the songs of a sureal degenerate hobo shaman: Priceless.
The lyrics scan like the some mad, sureal, fever-dream of a film-noir - "Kiss Me Deadly" on acid.
'Nightstick' is a policeman's baton, metonomically a policeman; a shillelagh, an irish cane.
So the narrator, perhaps the 'blind man', is a whisky soaked stool pigeon, exchanging, for a drink the location of a crooked irish cop, who misled his superiors ('stackin' the deck against a dragnets eye') so he could take revenge upon a druglord solo, pocket a half-mil in bloodmoney, and by 'throwing out handfuls of blood-stained salary' takes over the local blackmarket.
Potter's Field is where NYC once buried its nameless dead. A scarcrow might mean a strawman - a person who doesn't exist. So maybe the 'hero' or the 'nightstick' has stolen the identity of someone buried in potter's field.
Finking on your own mom: one shot of whisky. Blackmarket gun: $2. Bandage for the gunshot wound: $100. A Dancehall girl's crooked smile: $1,000. Listening to the songs of a sureal degenerate hobo shaman: Priceless.
The lyrics scan like the some mad, sureal, fever-dream of a film-noir - "Kiss Me Deadly" on acid.
'Nightstick' is a policeman's baton, metonomically a policeman; a shillelagh, an irish cane.
So the narrator, perhaps the 'blind man', is a whisky soaked stool pigeon, exchanging, for a drink the location of a crooked irish cop, who misled his superiors ('stackin' the deck against a dragnets eye') so he could take revenge upon a druglord solo, pocket a half-mil in bloodmoney, and by 'throwing out handfuls of blood-stained salary' takes over the local blackmarket.
Potter's Field is where NYC once buried its nameless dead. A scarcrow might mean a strawman - a person who doesn't exist. So maybe the 'hero' or the 'nightstick' has stolen the identity of someone buried in potter's field.