John Bates - Kissinger

John Bates is going down

He wrote his last hot check in a bankrupt town

His face won’t bounce when it hits the ground

John Bates is going down

Anyone can see he’s a cassa nova

Pressed shirt and a glass-piped Chevy Nova

China-red lipstick stain on the back of his neck

He slips the cassette to the deck

John Bates is going down

He wrote his last hot check in a bankrupt town

His face won’t bounce when it hits the ground

John Bates is going down

Studyin that see-through lingerie

She’ll take it off cause he came to play

Hot rubber check bounce take a bath

She gives me a call

I let the machine say it all