[ti:Barfruit Blues] [ar:The Hold Steady] [al:Almost Killed Me] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Barfruit Blues - The Hold Steady [00:01.60]Kids with broken hearts kids with broken bones [00:07.14]Kids with kidney stones giving birth to bloody stereos [00:13.70]Systems are all dripping wet with gristle piss and swizzle sticks [00:20.34]Mary's got a bloody nose from sniffing margarita mix [00:27.49]She licked her lower lip and then she kissed that hallelujah chick [00:34.31]She came off kind of spicy but she tasted like those pickle chips [00:40.88]We thought she was a dancer but her steps they made the records skip [00:46.59]She came off kind of crunchy but she went down like a chicken strip [00:53.68]Dripping wet with the special sauce she had a confidence smile and a nervous cough [00:59.24]We got off [01:25.34]She said it's good to see you back in a bar band baby [01:31.73]I said it's great to see you're still in the bars [01:52.41]Went down on the tallboy cans and he woke up in a cargo van [01:59.55]Went down with the girls gone wild and he woke up with the middle man [02:06.42]Went down with like fourteen bucks and woke up with like sixteen grand [02:12.28]Went down with some crust punk junk and woke up with a straight edge band [02:17.05]That's not how he planned it [02:31.01]Holly can't speak she don't feel all that sweet [02:34.85]About the places that she sometimes has to go to get some sleep [02:39.79]She said I'm sorry people think I'm pretty these clever kids are killing me [02:46.86]For one they ain't that clever [02:48.90]Number two it really sucks when you get stuck here with these Trevors [02:53.69]This was supposed to be a party [02:57.21]Half the crowd is calling out for born to run and the other half is calling out for born to lose [03:02.66]Baby we were born to choose [03:05.74]We got the last call bar band really big decision blues [03:15.57]We were born to bruise