Lyrics The Hold Steady

The Hold Steady

Confusion in the Marketplace

Princess came to breakfast looking puffy from the Prednisone

Someones little sister had me marching to the metronome

The Maharaji is on the mountain with a megaphone

Reaching for the secrets in the static on the stereo

There's something funny about the place that all the money goes

Coughing up the offering. And in between his toes

Knew a couple kids from when I still went to shows

All the little hornets forming swarms around the honeycomb

Searching for a purpose or just something we can celebrate

People take advantage of confusion in the marketplace

Hard to have much faith when they can't keep their story straight

Came back from the mission and her hair was in her mouth again

It's just another part of her don't wanna take the medicine

She won't miss the city but she'll miss all her friends

I said vice versa for me, man. Vice versa for me

Searching for a purpose or just something we can celebrate

People take advantage of confusion in the marketplace

I'll distract the manager and you obscure the license plates

Princess on the payphone with an angle on some Western states

We can take advantage of confusion in the marketplace

I don't want to dick around. I just want to devastate

Scoping out some dynamite and seeing if it detonates

People take advantage of confusion in the marketplace

You can turn the circles yeah and I can pull the parking brake

Princess on the payphone with an angle on some Western states

We can take advantage of confusion in the marketplace

I don't want to dick around. I just want to devastate