[ti:Certain Songs] [ar:The Hold Steady] [al:Almost Killed Me] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Certain Songs - The Hold Steady [00:22.04]I guess you're old enough to know [00:27.50]Kids out on the east coast [00:32.51]Roughly twenty years old [00:37.03]They got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio [00:43.96]Of warm beer to the summer smoke [00:48.15]And the Meat Loaf to the Billy Joel [00:53.41]Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls [01:01.82]She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car [01:10.40]She looks shallow but she's neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars [01:21.84]She's pulling out her shirttails and she's jacking up her socks [01:31.25]Stern and stoned and confident coming up towards the jukebox [01:36.38]Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along [01:41.10]B-1 is for the good girls and it's"Only The Good Die Young" [01:44.81]C-9 is for the making eyes it's"Paradise By The Dashboard Light" [01:50.81]B12 is for the speeders and D4 is for the lovers [01:55.12]And the hard ***** are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends [02:00.91]And they're playing it again [02:04.51]And Ellen Foley gives 'em hope [02:06.89]And certain songs they get scratched into our souls [03:07.43]I guess you're old enough to know [03:12.81]Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes [03:18.09]Screwing in the surf and going out to shows [03:23.37]They get high and ride around in GTOs [03:33.31]Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls [03:42.74]Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls