Penny Dreadfuls

Time'll change

Slip through the dust

As the bus pulls away from waving hands

And the child star

I bought a comic in the mail

And the sign said

The stories will shake the sheep

From off of you

So gather 'round

Just four more stops again

We'll reach our teachers'

Hallways in the end

Expect the foulest 'cause

Doubt does not allow it

I see the driver in the glass

This car moving past

While they're standing

There's no standing

The five-year olds eat defeat

Soiled in the seats when, "Attention!"

And short attention spans

The boy who sweats when he's caught

Is touching a palm of a princess

Who's cawing, "Where's my baby doll!"

Manny the thief, just lost all his teeth

To his mama, playing baseball

Ahh oooh

Ahh oooh

Pick a place and settle

Too fast to fright, he pauses

At who fought the likes of

His older pal

And when they find out who he is

Her eyes were sorry for

Her brother who waited away "go time"

Her dead costume just flipped her for the fall

And watch the pain go through her

The entire body twisted

Soldiers in the coldness

The bully grabs at my hair

And punches they fell toward me

Tells me, "gonna get me now"

The driver pushes the gas

The bully's schemes caught fast

So he spins back

Got his attention now

He hits the brakes and we slide

And his head hits the side

And he screams out

"Creeps, I'll take you all!"

And then he grabs penny dreadful, and looks on the check fulls

And my head sinks, my friends have left my shore

Then there's the stop where Sarah climbs in, she says

"Darling, where's your heart been?"

He laughs in his place

She spits in his face and says, "Bully, you leave my boy alone!"

Everybody came down just to see me leaving

Baby take my hand now can't you see I'm happy

When the story's mine I think I'll tell it different

It's a shame to hear the sound

When the penny hit the ground

And I want to go back home

When does this bus leave?