Multitude of Casualties - The Hold Steady

She drove it like she stole it

She stole it fast and with a multitude of casualties

She said I shipped it out from boulder

Packed in coffee grounds and wrapped around in dryer sheets

We spent a few months just wandering the sonoma

High as hell and shivering and smashed

We were hoping for a vision quest

We opened up three buttons

But all we saw was desert trash

It's a funny bit of chemistry

How a cool car makes a guy seem that much cooler

It's worth noting throughout history

Kids come around corners to a multitude of casualties

We spent a few hours circling the city

Like a hawk out on the highways

We were looking around for something that just died

We heard the deacon's hopeful eulogy

At least in dying you don't have to deal with new wave for a second time

After your party we got off the grid

We just couldn't get with all those clever kids

Now we forage on the frontage roads

We drive at nites I guess it just feels somewhat safer

We scrounge around for sustinence

We mostly eat it in the back half of the theaters

We spent a few years nodding off in matinees

High as hell and shivering and smashed

We were hoping for an action adventure

Something loud that we could feel thru all the feminax

And after the movie we got off the ground

Got in yr car and crawled around in lowertown

While she was at the citadel

He was getting high as hell

When she came to in the matinee

She was asking round for someplace else to stay

While he was down in lowertown

She was feeling out the 530 folk mass

And the nite that she got born again

He was getting with her little hoodrat friend

They did wade in the water into one tin soldier

She started to cry

Youth services always find a way to get their bloody cross into your druggy little messed up teenage life