Lyrics The Hold Steady

The Hold Steady

Hornets! Hornets!

She said always remember never to trust me

She said that the first night that she met me

She said there's gonna come a time when I'm gonna have to go

With whoever's gonna get me the highest

She said I won't be much for conversation

If we go and do the rest of this

And I've never been much for conservation

I kinda dig these awkward silences

She's got those Bones Brigade videos

She knew them back and forth, she slept with so many skaters

She had the place to herself, she had a couple hundred bucks

And he had nothing but the number

I like the guy who always answers the door

He always knows what you came to his house for

She said I won't be much for all this humbert humbert stuff

I've never really done that much of this

And I have to really try so hard not to fall in love

I have to concentrate when we kiss

She mouthed the words along to "Running Up That Hill"

That song got scratched into her soul

And he never heard that song before but he still got the metaphor

He knows some people that switched places before

I like the crowds at the really big shows

People touching people that they don't even know, yo

I guess the heavy stuff ain't quite at its heaviest

By the time it gets out to suburban Minneapolis

We were living up at Nicollet and 66th

With three skaters and some hoodrat chick

Drove the wrong way down 169

Almost died up by Edina High