The fifth track on Tempest, a snarling mid-tempo rocker driven by piano and guitar.
The words
A furious, vengeful voice declares that he settles every debt with violence rather than with money.
The speaker is a hard, menacing figure who seems to have seen corruption and cruelty everywhere and answers it with threats of his own. Each verse piles up insults, boasts and grim pronouncements, and the refrain returns to the idea that his payment comes in blood. The music is jaunty and polished, which makes the venom in the vocal even more unsettling. It is one of the angriest songs on an already violent album.
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The words
A furious, vengeful voice declares that he settles every debt with violence rather than with money.
The speaker is a hard, menacing figure who seems to have seen corruption and cruelty everywhere and answers it with threats of his own. Each verse piles up insults, boasts and grim pronouncements, and the refrain returns to the idea that his payment comes in blood. The music is jaunty and polished, which makes the venom in the vocal even more unsettling. It is one of the angriest songs on an already violent album.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 2012
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