Lucinda Williams - West Memphis Lyrics

Threee little boys were found in 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
On a horrible offense
But that's the way we do things
In west Memphis

They didin't like the music I listened to
They didin't like the way I dressed
They set me up with a forced confessions
I never had a chance
They threw the book at me
At my expense
They got no common sense
But that's the way the do things
In west Memphis

Refrain:

Yeah, that 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 prision
For a crime I didin't commit
Wasn't nobody listened
Or rose to my defense
Somebody planted the evidence
And he's been lying ever since
But that's the way we d things
In West memphis

And after all these years they still refuse
to say what really happened
The crooked method that they used
to frame an innocent man
Snd hiding in the darkest secrets
behind every picket fence
And that's the way we do thing
In west memphis

Refrain:

Yeah, 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

Yeah, 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

That's just the way we do things in west Memphis
That's just the way we do things in Weat Memphis

[Thanks to frangil60 for adding these lyrics]