The Hold Steady - Barfruit Blues lyrics

Kids with broken hearts
Kids with broken bones
Kids with kidney stones giving
Birth to bloody stereos
Systems are all dripping wet
With the gristle piss and the swizzlesticks
Mary 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
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 confident smile and a nervous cough
And 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"
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 with a tallboy can and he
Woke up in a cargo van
Went down with the Girls Gone Wild and
He woke up with a 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 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"
The other half is calling out
For "Born To Lose"
Baby, we were born to choose
We got the last call bar band really, really
Really big decision blues

We were born to bruise
We were born to bruise
We were born to bruise