Wristband

Album: Stranger to Stranger (2016)
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  • I stepped outside the backstage door to breathe some nicotine
    And maybe check my mailbox
    See if I can read the screen
    Then I heard a click, the stage door lock
    I knew just what that meant
    I'm gonna have to walk around the block
    If I wanna get it in

    Wristband, my man, you've got to have a wristband
    If you don't have a wristband, my man
    You don't get through the door
    Wristband, my man, you've got to have a wristband
    And if you don't have a wristband, my man
    You don't get through the door

    I can explain it
    I don't know why my heart beats like a fist
    When I meet some dude with an attitude saying
    "Hey, you can't do that, or this"
    And the man was large, a well-dressed six-foot-eight
    And he's acting like Saint Peter standing guard at the pearly

    Wristband, my man
    You've got to have a wristband
    That you don't have a wristband
    You don't get through the door
    And I said wristband?
    I don't need a wristband
    My axe is on the bandstand, my band is on the floor

    I mean it's just

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    The riots started slowly
    With the homeless and the lowly
    Then they spread into the heartland towns
    That never get a wristband
    Kids that can't afford the cool brand
    Whose anger is a short-hand
    For you'll never get a wristband
    And if you don't have a wristband
    Then you can't get through the door
    No you can't get through the door (wristband)
    No you can't get through the door (wristband)
    Say you can't get through the door, no (wristband)
    (Wristband) Writer/s: PAUL SIMON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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