[EnemyOfTheState]

The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend

Your little hoodrat friend makes me sick
But after I get sick I just get sad
Because it burns being broke and it hurts to be heartbroken
But always being both must be a drag

She's been calling me again
She's been calling me again

Your little hoodrat friend's been calling me again
And I can't stand all the things that she sticks into her skin
Like sharpened ballpoint pens and steel guitar strings
She says it hurts, but it's worth it
Tiny little text etched into her neck it said
"Jesus lived and died for all your sins"
She's got blue black ink and it's scratched into her lower back
It said "damn right I'll rise again"
Yeah, damn right you'll rise again

I've been dusted in the dark up in Penetration Park
And I've been plastered
I've been shaking hard and searching in a dirty storefront church
And I've been plowed

But I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
What makes you think I'm getting with your little hoodrat friend?

Your little hoodrat friend got me high though
We were 17 and stuck up in Osseo
She said it's funny even true love gets troubled by still water
And washed up in the Mississippi River
Her claddagh ring was pointed at the people
She said "St. Theresa came to me in dreams"
She said "I ain't gonna do anything sexual with you
I'm kinda saving myself for the scene"

I've been dusted in the dark up in Penetration Park
And I've been plastered
I've been shaking hard and searching in a dirty storefront church
And I've been plowed

But I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
What makes you think I'm getting with your little hoodrat friend?

She said City Center used to be the center of the scene
Now City Center's over, no one really goes there
Then we used to drink beneath this railroad bridge
Some nights the bus wouldn't even stop there were just way too many kids

I was waiting for my ride and I got jumped from behind
I got punctured
I got stopped by the cops, they found it in my socks
And I got probed

But I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
I ain't ever been with your little hoodrat friend
What makes you think I'm getting with your little hoodrat friend?


The Decemberists - Odalisque
they've come to find you odalisque
as the light dies horribly
on a fire escape you walk
all rare and resolved to drop

and when they find you odalisque
they will rend you terribly
stitch from stitch til all
your linen and limbs will fall

lazy lady had a baby girl
and a sweet sound it made
raised on pradies, peanut shells and dirt
in the railroad culdesac

and what do we with 10 baby shoes
a kit bag full of marbles
and a broken billiard cue? what do we do?
what do we do?

fifteen stitches will mend those britches right
and then rip them down again
sapling switches will rend those rags alright
what a sweet sound it makes

and what do we do with 10 dirty jews
a thirty-ought full of rock salt
and a warm afternoon? what do we do?
what do we do?

lay your belly under mine
you're naked under me, under me
such a filthy dimming shine
the way you kick and scream, kick and scream

and what do we do with ten baby shoes
a kit bag full of marbles
and a broken billiard cue? what do we do?
what do we do?

lazy lady had a baby girl, and a sweet sound it made

Minus the Bear - Ice Monster
you've come to this. you were once a lion.
you've come to this. bringing den here.
you've come to this. you were a lion.
you've come to this. sigh alone now.
you walked on some tall moon tail.
it's come to this. you walked on a tall.
we all know you've come home to fall.

she's gone, she's gone 'cross the border, man.
and you're never gonna see her again.
i could give a fuck, oh, what you do to me.
but your party's over, it's done. the end.

take a step back
take a step back
take a step back man
take a step back and turn yourself around.
the check has been cashed
there's no stopping it now.
you're safe if i'm safe
and she's safe, we're okay.
the sooner as we pass this
we'll all stop our knocking on wood.
knock on wood.

she's gone, she's gone 'cross the border, man.
and you're never gonna see her again.
i could give a fuck, oh, what you do to me.
but your party's over, it's done. the end.

it's come to this [x8]

and we all know
that you've come home
to fall.

she's gone, she's gone 'cross the border, man.
and you're never gonna see her again.
i could give a fuck, oh, what you do to me.
but your party's over, it's done. the end.