Waiting for the Bus to Take Me Home

Album: The Boy Bands Have Won (2008)
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  • My name is Gary Tyler, Louisiana-born
    Shadow of the poplar tree on fields all ripe with corn
    Sixteen years I counted on the rising of the sun
    Im just waiting for the bus to take me home
    Of all the Disunited States divided black and white
    Louisiana taught me how to think and how to fight
    Sixty of us kids aboard the number 91
    Im just waiting for the bus to take me home

    Bus was barely moving we were set upon and stopped
    Watched 200 white boys throwing bottles, cans and rocks
    Trapped and scared together there was nowhere we could run
    Im just waiting for the bus to take me home
    Boy outside the bus, an automatic in his hand
    We heard a single shot and then we all just hit the ground
    I never pulled a trigger and I never held a gun
    Im just waiting for the bus to take me home

    White boy lay there bleeding cops they searched the bus
    Never found a thing to say that it was one of us
    Took us down the station they were beating us for fun
    Im just waiting for the bus to take me home
    Gun produced from nowhere pinned the crime on me
    A lynchmob for a jury meant theyd never set me free
    Thirty years in prison for a crime I havent done
    Im just waiting for the bus to take me home

    Waiting here the world has turned a thousand times or more
    Stranded like the man who never knew theyd stopped the war
    Waiting for the pardon but the pardon never comes
    Im just waiting for the bus to take me home. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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