Taking You With Me We rode the same bus to school His girlfriend fell in love with me It got tense there for a while Last two weeks with a knife under my seat I was afraid Got out of state just in time Told his woman I'm taking you with me But I left her there to rot She loved someone I'm just not He just got back from Iraq Medical discharge from the Corps Given six months to live He arrived to settle one last score How did he find me After all this time Note through my window: I'm taking you with me I heard he'd been asking 'round I checked into a motel It's about to go down Call a security guard, there's a madman with a gun Drop your shopping bags, look for an exit sign and run I just did what anyone else in that mall would have done Once a month on the weekends Just in case it came to this I'd go to the shooting range Only got one shot, can't afford to miss I looked him in the eye I stepped out from women's wear 'How have you been, my friend? I'm taking you with me I just got the drop on him I just dropped him Oh jury of my peers Understand it was in self defense, it's not as it appears He wanted to take everything from me I only took six months away from him He was a lunatic And if you insist I'll send some money to the ten-year-old twins I left behind