LUNCHTIME AT LUBY'S
Not yet recorded

V1
I drove my Ranger into Luby's cafeteria
Voice inside my head was screamng "Georgie, make 'em fear ya!"
(This is what Bell County's done to me)
I dealt my vengeance from the barrel of a gun
Mr Glock and Mr Ruger say they came to have some fun
(This is what Bell County's done to me)

Chorus
Smashed glass and gunsmoke on a Texas afternoon
Say Hi to Georgie cos the end is coming soon
Today is payday, all you vipers gonna die
Killing in Killeen, it's time to kiss your ass goodbye

V2
You came to this restaurant expecting to be fed
This lunchtime's special is fresh hot lead
(This is what Bell County's done to me)
Men, women, children, I shot 'em full of holes
But a mother with a four-year-old, I let 'em go
(This is what Bell County's done to me)

Chorus
Break

V3
Fat guy jumps out through the window, survivors flee
Sirens howling down the street, two bullets go through me
(This is what Bell County's done to me)
Ankle deep in blood, with the cops outside the door
I stagger to the back room and I raise the gun once more
(This is what Bell County's done to me)

Chorus

One shot to my head, but I took down twenty-three
And that was what Bell County did to me.

(C) Corvus Rex Music 2009

LEE J: This is a more serious song. This a song about extremes, how far could you be pushed before you snap…In 1991, George Hennard, a 35 year old, drove his pickup truck through the window of Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. He started choosing victims, mainly women and opened fire on them. He fatally shot 23 and wounded a further 20. He was eventually wounded himself by the sheriff’s department, but he chose to blow his own brains out rather than face the consequences.
I’m not a sicko in choosing this material to write a song about, I thought it was a sad story, but not uncommon (especially in the States). It just shows you how fucked some Americans really are. I mean, if we, here in Blighty get pissed off about things we write grumpy letters (or more often do nothing), but America, oh no, not them!!
Anyway, it was written….the tune is a real departure for us. This is an acoustic number but the tune is almost like a jig or hoe down. It’s a great fighting song. But, no guns tho’!!!  -  play safe, people.     

RATBAG: This song was a long time in the making. Lee J mentioned to me ages ago that he'd like to do a song about the Luby's Massacre - now, at the time I'd never heard of it, so he dug out a load of info on it for me. I wrote the lyrics as a fairly straightforward description of how the incident went down. I tried to get in as much detail as possible - stuff like the makes of the guns he used, the model of his pickup (a Ford Ranger), and some of the things Hennard said in the course of the massacre (such as "Today is payday!", "This is what Bell County has done to me" and his habit of describing women as "vipers"). He did let a mother with a four year old child leave the scene unharmed, and no-one ever found out why. He did kill the kid's grandmother though. The survivors were saved by a 6'6" 300lb mechanic named Tommy Vaughan, who at great personal risk threw himself through a plate glass window, allowing people an escape.route.
Hennard, it later transpired, was a well-known local nutter, racist, misogynist and fantasist who had recently sent a bizarre and suggestive letter to two young sisters who lived down the street from him.
Lee wrote the tune, initially as an acoustic thing, but when we did it we beefed it up considerably, so it has a kind of "Motorhead gone country" feel to it now. Definitely a change for us, but I think it's come out well.