1979

shakedown 1979,

cool kids never have the time

on a live wire right up off the street

you and i should meet junebug

skipping like a stone

with the headlights pointed at the dawn

we were sure we'd never see an end to it all

and i don't even care

to shake these zipper blues

and we don't know just where our bones will rest

to dust i guess forgotten

and absorbed into the earth

below double cross the vacant

and the bored they're not sure

just what we have in the store

morphine city slippin' dues

down to see that we don't

even care as restless as we are

we feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts and poured cement,

lamented and assured to the lights and towns below

faster than the speed of sound

faster than we thought we'd go,

beneath the sound of hope justine

never knew the rules,

hung down with the freaks and the ghouls

no apologies ever need be made,

i know you better than you fake it

to see that we don't care to shake these zipper blues

and we don't know just where our bones will rest

to dust i guess forgotten and absorbed

into the earth below the street

heats the urgency of now

as you can see there's no one around