Lyrics The Lawrence Arms

The Lawrence Arms

The YMCA Down the Street From the Clinic

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You can smell the rats are dying as the ship starts to sink

Down beneath, the poor are in bracers and tears

Up against the bars, staring down their years

You told me to kiss you because we were at the end

And I said I wouldn't miss you, because baby, I'd be dead

And that's the only way, it seems, that I could get away

Otherwise, I'm nothing without you, babe

I got a bad, sick stink, and I'm bathing in the sink

At the YMCA down the street from the clinic

And there's a sad old man with a sad, saggy ass

Just crying under the electric dryer for your hands

And he's wet, and he's dying and the spiders on his nose

Seem to indicate that he's been keeping warm out in the cold

And he's a lot like me, I guess… but we're somehow not the same

They say you really die the last time anybody says your name

Oh

This sweet and sticky dream was nothing that I needed

Just demons to believe and poisons lined up to feed 'em

And the rings inside this tree are rotten deeper down

Goddamn this fucking town

It's restless and I'm drowning

I got these black rotten teeth

Cracking off in bloody beef

And I haven't seen the dentist in at least six thousand weeks

And I'm high on this TV and these whiskeys and these dreams

That I wouldn't dare to follow because I couldn't dare succeed

So I write down shitty words

So I sit in titty bars

So I text and tweet and look at nudes and beat off in the dark

Back when I was just a boy

These were okay ways to go

But baby, I got old

And somewhere I ditched my soul

Oh

This sweet and sticky dream was nothing that I needed

Just demons to believe and poisons lined up to feed 'em

And the rings inside this tree are rotten deeper down

Goddamn this fucking town

It's restless and I'm drowning

We are the lonely seeds

Adrift on burning seas

Just pour the goddamn round

And let's let these fuckers drown