The Hold Steady - Family Farm lyrics

St catherine's was a nightmare
You know they took away my headphones
Sure they let you keep your handset
But the courtyard is a dead zone

And the nurse that they assigned me
Had Eruption as her ring tone
Blasting out through built-in speakers
Like it's bug spray
Buzzing like a hornet halfway blown

If you're still in Pennsylvania
I'd advise you not to leave
Take some nickels from the fountain
Make your friends and fall asleep

Let your sins be of omission
I wish you wouldn't engage
With all these creeps
'Cause they're never gonna love you
That one specific way


That you want 'em all to love you

(The way you want 'em to love you)
(The way you want 'em to love you)
With a flexible schedule and a
Willingness to trade your medications
(The way you want 'em to love you)
Obsessive and controlling and coming
Up on total suffocation

She came into the cantina singing
"This Must Be The Place"
Said, "Faithful has it's limit's
I just want to see his face"
Before she took her shot she
Said a little grace said "Lord
Grant me the power to stop
These hands from shaking"

I'd been falling in the fountain since
A week or so before
I'd been rattled by the accident
My shoulders were still sore
I almost rolled my eyes when they
Asked me how to score
But sometimes it feels sweet
To be the teacher

When she was combing through the carpet
I could not resist her charms
She brought me to a fortress
She called the family farm
And out along the towers there
Were guards with heavy arms
I guess there was some
Tension with the neighbors

Tripping at the airstrip
Drinking on the runway
Laughing at the jets as we
Watched 'em fly away she said
"You get what you get when
You push too far ahead
They put us in these places for a reason"

(The way you want 'em to love you)
(The way you want 'em to love you)
Shaking your head with resignation
Masquerading as wisdom
(The way you want 'em to love you)
Leaning on the lamp post just jangling
The keys to the kingdom

(The way you want 'em to love you)
Listing in the lobby of a
Hotel on the highway
Not sure you even want to be rescued
(The way you want 'em to love you)
'Cause they're never gonna love you
That one specific way
That you want 'em all to love you
(The way you want 'em to love you)
And you want 'em all to love you