Don’t Mess With Jake

[Verse 1]
Out by Concord Techniques
Where the dust don't sleep
Gunners-mercs came prowlin'
Like wolves on the heap

They snatched Jake in daylight
Dragged him off that site
Jake was the President's friend
And that ain't right

[Pre-Chorus]
Word rolled through the Commonwealth
Fast as a gunshot line
When they took that boy from home
They crossed a hard red line

[Chorus]
Don't mess with The President
Don't mess with The President
Jake's comin' back again
Don't mess with The President

Don't mess with The President
Don't mess with The President
If you take what's ours tonight
You won't like the dawn's first light

[Verse 2]
From Goodneighbor alleys
To the hills of ash
Every courier and drifter
Came answerin' fast

Old rifles out of lockers
Boots in the road
Folks who'd never met Jake
Still carried that load

[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause everybody knew his name
And everybody knew the code
You don't leave a friend behind
When the desert wants your soul

[Chorus]
Don't mess with The President
Don't mess with The President
Jake's comin' back again
Don't mess with The President

Don't mess with The President
Don't mess with The President
If you take what's ours tonight
You won't like the dawn's first light

[Bridge]
They found him by the rail yard
Bound in rusted wire
With a grin and a busted lip
And the whole sky on fire

The President rode out there
Like thunder in a frame
Said, "You picked the wrong old world
To go and stake your claim"

[Final Chorus]
Don't mess with The President
Don't mess with The President
Jake's comin' back again
Don't mess with The President

Don't mess with The President
Don't mess with The President
In the Commonwealth they say
Heroes still get paid this way

Don't mess with The President
Don't mess with The President
Jake walked home by sunrise
And the mercs ran for the line