West Memphis - Lucinda Williams

Three little boys were found on the river

On a sweltering summer night

Not one soul ever figured it out

Who created that terrible sight

Now somebody’s gotten away with murder

And a horrible offense

Well that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

They didn’t like the music I listened to

They didn’t like the way I dressed

They set me up with a forced confession

I never had a chance

They threw the book at me at my expense

They got no common sense

But that’s the way they do things in West Memphis

That’s the way we do things in West Memphis

That’s the way we do things in West Memphis

It’s never been any different

So don’t come around here and try to mess with us

Cause that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

I was framed and sentenced

To a life in prison

For a crime I didn’t commit

Wasn’t nobody listened or rose in my defense

Somebody planted the evidence and he’s been lying ever since

But that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

And after all these years they still refuse

To say what really happened

The crooked methods they used

To frame an innocent man

Are hiding in the darkest secrets behind every picket fence

And that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

That’s the way we do things in West Memphis

Yeah that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

Is never been any different

So don’t come round here and try to mess with us

Cause that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

Yeah that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

Yeah that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

Is never been any different

So don’t come round here try to mess with us

Cause that’s the way we do things in West Memphis

That’s just the way we do things in West Memphis

That’s just the way we do things in West Memphis