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I was a bored little boy who emptied the Hell out of Pandora's Box,
The Hell out of Pandora's Box and it burned up the City I loved,
Till nothing was left but a Church and a TV and a fucking Starbucks,
And I understood why St Thomas Aquinas said knowledge was dangerous stuff.

So I came to NOLA and swapped the Inferno for the Flood,
The Inferno for the Flood and surfed a mattress right to the top
Of this empty hotel full of boxcar kids for a family caked in mud,
And nobody tells the End of the World when to stop.

They call me Xander, Xander the Great,
From the Lone, the Lone Star State.
Well they drink to my past,
While I spit out my fate.

We go down to Checkpoint’s and hustle beer money out of the tourists,
Beer money out of the tourists playing on the pool table.
Johnny sits in the corner and sings out the scores like a Greek Chorus.
We go back to the Bird’s Nest and get as high as the Tower of Babel.

When the kids are in bed, Johnny gives me the eye and tries to get friendly,
The eye and tries to get friendly talking life imitating art.
“If you’re Peter Pan leading the Lost Boys, I guess that makes me Wendy!”
And he sings me to sleep before the homesickness starts.

They call me Xander, Xander the Great,
From the Lone, the Lone Star State.
Well it ain’t my fault
If I arrived a little late.

(I had that dream again last night —
The fire skipped across the sand
And slipped into my daddy’s car,
Whistling, whistling through the cracks.)

What if we don’t wanna be saved?

They call me Xander, Xander the Great,
From the Lone, the Lone Star State.
Well they drink to my past,
While I spit out my fate.

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from Alexander the Great — Act 2, released February 27, 2014

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Humphrey ‘Huck’ Astley | Singer with The Xander Band, The Handsome Fee, et al | New solo EP coming 2020 ✌️🤞

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