Barfruit Blues - The Hold Steady

Barfruit Blues -The Hold Steady
Kids with broken hearts kids with broken bones
Kids with kidney stones giving birth to bloody stereos
Systems are all dripping wet with gristle piss and swizzle sticks
Mary's got a bloody nose from sniffing margarita mix
She licked her lower lip and then she kissed that hallelujah chick
She came off kind of spicy but she tasted like those pickle chips
We thought she was a dancer but her steps they made the records skip
She came off kind of crunchy but she went down like a chicken strip
Dripping wet with the special sauce she had a confidence smile and a nervous cough
We got off
She said it's good to see you back in a bar band baby
I said it's great to see you're still in the bars
Went down on the tallboy cans and he woke up in a cargo van
Went down with the girls gone wild and he woke up with the middle man
Went down with like fourteen bucks and woke up with like sixteen grand
Went down with some crust punk junk and woke up with a straight edge band
That's not how he planned it
Holly can't speak she don't feel all that sweet
About the places that she sometimes has to go to get some sleep
She said I'm sorry people think I'm pretty these clever kids are killing me
For one they ain't that clever
Number two it really sucks when you get stuck here with these Trevors
This was supposed to be a party
Half the crowd is calling out for born to run and the other half is calling out for born to lose
Baby we were born to choose
We got the last call bar band really big decision blues
We were born to bruise