THE HOLD STEADY LYRICS - Barfruit Blues

"Barfruit Blues"



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