I thought you're through with all the bougie guys, don't you wonder about the other side? They only get invited 'cause they think that they might buy
Kids with broken hearts And kids with broken bones Kids with kidney stones Giving birth to bloody stereos Systems are all dripping wet With gristle piss
I guess you're old enough to know Kids out on the east coast Roughly twenty years old They got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio Of warm beer to
Hey citrus, hey liquor I love it when you touch each other Hey whiskey, hey ginger I come to you with rigid fingers I see Judas in the hard eyes of the
Me and my friends are like The drums on 'Lust for Life' We pound it out on floor toms Our Psalms are sing along songs And this whole town is like this
They got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things, said I'm pretty sure we've heard this one before Don't it all end up in some revelation
Nelson Algren came to Paddy at some party at the dead end alley Yeah, he told him what to celebrate And I met William Butler Yeats, Sunday night dance
There was a stage and a PA Up in western Massachusetts And the kids came from miles around To get messed up on the music And she drove down from Baudoin
He said what about Los Angeles? She said we never really made it that far west We scored big in Denver and thought it might be best To go hang around
A knockoff necktie The way he wore it made it look more like a tourniquet I looked deep in his eyes I saw Lynn, Massachussetts She hung a sleeveless
You should have seem 'em just after midnight When they were down on their luck and still high from a street fight Told it like it wasn't really much
I was not involved up at the north town mall As a matter of fact I didn't even know that that's where it happened I was France Ave when they came out
Her parents named her Hallelujah, the kids all called her Holly And if she scared you then she's sorry, she's been stranded at these parties These parties
Jessie, I'm not joking around I see the crowd you're hanging with and those kids don't seem positive Don't all the cigs make you tired? You know I'd never
If they ask about Charlemagne Be polite and say something vague Like another lover lost to the restaurant raids If they ask, why we left in the first
Charlemagne shakes in the streets Gideon makes love to the suites And Holly's not invincible, in fact she's in the hospital Not far from that bar where
She put 900 dollars on the fifth horse in the sixth race I think his name was Chips Ahoy! Came in six lengths ahead We spent the whole next week getting
Hallelujah came to in the confession booth Infested with infections and smiling on an abscessed tooth Running out on residue and crashing through the
