The Hold Steady - Our Whole Lives

LRC by lzh, from jiangxi pingxiang

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kids are ripping into sugar packets

townies taking off their tavern jackets

i'm in the pews sticking bills in the basket

praying that they're cool when I come pick up the package

tonight we're gonna have a really good time

but i want to go to heaven on the day i die

going to make like a preemptive strike

hit the five thirty mass early saturday night

ring ring ring goes the telephone

tell my little lambs that i'm on my way home

stop by the shop and get a bottle to go

maybe something stronger if the right guy's on the corner

bang bang bang goes the quarter notes

saint theresa told me you should rattle our bones

now you're going off to the dial tone

some kid started blowing on the saxophone

cheerleaders dream of quarterbacks

jock jills go for jumping jacks

goth girls love the vampire bats

they wanna draw a little blood for their bath

well i don't go much for that spooky stuff

i like the lights and the uptempo tracks

you're damn right i believe in love

because i've been in love and i've loved right back

bang bang bang goes the backing track

some kid is coming around with a matching backpack

i didn't know that you could dance like that

i'm gonna have to ask that you take two steps back

sing sing sing every song we know

blowing out the speakers on your stereo

you finally stopped talking about that boy back home

maybe that's just better, if you want you can sleep over

we're good guys but we can't be good every night

we're good guys but we can't be good our whole lives

we're good guys but we can't be good every night

now father i have sinned and i wanna do it all again tonight

the townies taking off their tavern jackets

making guitars out of tennis racquets

and it's been getting so the hardest part

is trying to talk some sense into our sparkling hearts

ring ring ring goes the telephone

tell my little lambs that i ain't coming home

yes, yes, yes go the majorettes

they lead the band on to the field with their cigarettes

bang bang bang she's a cleaning freak

she scrubs the surface until it's sparkling

neat neat neat until her fingers bleed

she was giving off blue light on the first light that she came to me

we're good guys but we can't be good every night

we're good guys but can't be good our whole lives

we're good guys but we can't be good every night

we're good guys but can't be good our whole lives

she was giving off blue light on the first night that she came to me

father i have sinned, and i want to do it all again eventually