Run on the Banks
A Father's Vengeance Unleashed: Run on the Banks Tale
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When I came home from the Anzio shore
Returning home from the Anzio shore, likely after military service
Got me a job at a Shiretown store
Secured employment at a store in a Shiretown
I married up quick, we had the one son
Quickly married and had one son
My limit was hit and my race was run
Reached a limit or breaking point in life, feeling that his course was completed
We raised him right
Raised their son with proper values and education
We put him through school
Supported their son through schooling with both care and strictness
With a gentle embrace and an iron rule
Used a combination of affection and firm discipline in parenting
Our world was shattered when we lost our son
Experienced devastation upon losing their son tragically to violence
To the business end of a gangster's gun
Son became a victim of a gangster's gun
How do you go from a burned out light
Reflecting on the struggle of transitioning from despair to seeking revenge or justice
To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
Metaphorically chasing unidentifiable targets or purposes in life
How do you live with a lingering ghost?
Dealing with the lingering presence of a lost loved one
Oh, with a run on the banks
Expressing coping with grief through financial turmoil or recklessness, possibly as a metaphor
Oh, with a run on the banks
-When they buried my boy of twenty-two years
Burying his 22-year-old son led to a vow to seek more than succumbing to sorrow
I swore I'd do more than choke on my tears
Determined to toughen emotionally and seek vengeance
So I hardened up my heart, I took up the oath
Resolutely embraced a commitment or promise for retribution
And looked for ways to avenge us both
Expressing coping with grief through financial turmoil or recklessness, possibly as a metaphor
Me and his mother, we never were the same
Their relationship suffered and his wife left him, blaming himself for the breakdown
She left me one spring and I am to blame
He became emotionally detached, disregarding life and love
Forgot about living, forgot about her
He forgot about the value of living and the importance of love
Forgot about love and the way things were
Disregarded love and the way things used to be, losing touch with his emotions
How do you go from a burned out light
Expressing coping with grief through financial turmoil or recklessness, possibly as a metaphor
To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
-How do you live with a lingering ghost?
-Oh, with a run on the banks
-Oh, with a run on the banks
-Sixteen guns, twenty-five kilos
Describing involvement in a criminal act, smuggling illegal goods
A couple thousand rounds when we run her aground
-Crew bailed out and headed for the hills
-With a barrel of blow and a mountain of pills
-No arrest in her majesty's waters
Expressing frustration at the lack of justice for crimes committed at sea
No victory for the mothers and fathers
-Of the young and the damned
-The guilty walk free
-To continue their trade on a cruel black sea
-How do you go from a burned out light
Continued struggle with coping, seeking revenge or resolution
To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
-How do you live with a lingering ghost?
-Oh, with a run on the banks
Expressing coping with grief through financial turmoil or recklessness, possibly as a metaphor
Oh, with a run on the banks
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