I don't give a rat's ass, you rat bastards

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive

But one of these days I'm going to wriggle up on dry land

Some things you do for money and some you do for love love love

Don’t call it a comeback I've been here for years Maximum respect to all the warriors Who choose to fall down on their spears

How did the monkey get there?

Although you treat me badly, I love you madly You really got a hold on me, you really got a hold on me

And we love these dogs that roll on the lawns here in Galesburg

I felt so desperate in your arms

When I get off the wheel I'm going to stop And make amends to everyone I've wounded And when I wave my magic wand Those few who've slipped the surly bonds Will rise like salmon at the spawning

Yeah, the house and the jewels, the Italian racecar They don't make us feel better about who we are I got termites in the framework, so do you

See I'm perfectly aware of where our love stands But the plain fact is that you owe me eight grand

I'm coming to swat you down like flies

I checked us into our motel and filled the bathtub And you got in the warm, warm water I pulled petals from my pocket I loved you so much just then

And I can't stand the way my body still remembers How much we used to mean to one another way back when And I can't stand going back to seek the shelter of your arms And then I can't stand it again

You are coming down with me Hand in unlovable hand

And I would never have told you that I don't love you anymore

Who is that creature with the crazed look in his eyes? Don't even question your senses, you can be sure that's me

Etch an outline on your heart I'm gonna blow the whole circus apart

I knew what those figures meant And what they hoped to represent When I was younger

The loneliest people in the whole wide world Are the ones you're never going to see again

I dance with the ones that brought me here

I know that one of us, I'm not saying who, Has got rocks in her head

This song is for the people Who tell their families that they're sorry For things they can't and won't feel sorry for

Come on in We haven't slept for weeks Drink some of this It'll put color in your cheeks

Goodbye young Danish women Goodbye Danish sky Goodbye cold air, I am going away Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

For the good times That won't last

Grow fat and grow old and go blind and be content

I don't know if that's true, but I've been told It's real sweet to grow old

Cheap drapes frame the windows, no one speaks his mind Buckling asphalt up ahead, smoking wreck behind Stock footage of a ballroom nearly flooded with champagne We're lost in the desert and it's never going to rain

You're gonna have to learn how to read

And I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam And no emotion that's worth having could call my heart its home

The bad taste in our mouths The twinkle in your eye Good things never last Bad things never die

I wish the West Texas Highway was a Möbius strip I could ride it out forever

We show great loyalty To the hard times we've been through

There's a capsicum pepper plant growing Out in the backyard

That's not the sun up in the sky, it's a human heart

Like a monument to desperation two floors high

Any of my old friends who have no place to turn to They know to call me anytime they come through

Live in the present, savor the grind Relish the time before you have to leave it behind

I like these torture devices from my old best friend

I hope that our few remaining friends Give up on trying to save us

Swim or drown Save this town, save everything not nailed down

But you can ask any veteran running back Eventually your joints complain

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream Don't expect him to thank or forgive you The best ever death metal band out of Denton Will in time both outpace and outlive you

Sit on my porch in Houston Let the good times dance across my mind

Mosquitos suck the blood right out of my body Why don't they finish the job

I'm gonna make a gigantic mess

Looked bad last week against the Blue Jays

Bring in the cadaver sniffing dog