The Swish - The Hold Steady

Pills and powders baby powders and pills

We spent the night last night in Beverly Hills

There was this chick that looked like Beverly Sills

We got killed

Tights and skirts baby skirts and tights

We used to shake it up in shaker heights

There was this chick she looked like Patty Smythe

She seemed seemed shaky but nice

She said my name is Rick Danko but people call me one-hour photo

I've got some hazardous chemicals

Drive around to the window

She said my name is Robbie Robertson but people call me robo

I blew red white and blue right into a tissue

I came right over the counter just to kiss you

Ginger and jack and four or five feminax

Psycho eyes and a stovepipe hat a ray of light in white rayon slacks

We got cracked shoes and socks baby socks and shoes

We spent the night last night in Newport News

This chick she looked just like Elizabeth Shue

We got bruised

She said my name is Steve Perry but people call me Circuit City

I'm so well connected my UPC is dialed into the system

She said my name's Neil Schon but some people call me Nina Simone

Some people call me Andre Cymone

I've survived the eighties one time already

And I don't recall them all that fondly

It was a blockbuster summer

Moving pictures helped us get through to September

They made a movie about me and you it was half nude and half true

It was a bloodsucking summer

I spent half the time trying to get paid from our savior

Swishing though the city center

I did a couple favors for some guys who looked like Tuscan raiders