I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You - The Hold Steady

I heard the Cityscape Skins are kinda kicking it again

Heard they finally got some discipline

Running up the score and stocking up like it's World War for

I heard that some are getting sprung and some are back in

You know it's always back and forth

And most of them are dead

And some don't even live here anymore

So when I brought you back here for Christmas

I didn't think we would see them

I guess I should've explained

There was a side of this city I didn't want you to see

There's just these guys that I know we go back pretty deep

And I hope this whole thing didn't frighten you

There were times that it terrified me

I know what they said I don't know if it's true

I hope this whole thing didn't frighten you

They're building a bunker down by the river

And someone said that that's where they've been getting together

They got masks for the gas they're sleeping in their bulletproof vests

I guess Shepard came out of St Cloud with a little ideology

Some new way of thinking man

A view to the future

Jesus this might be a mess

For me it was mostly the music

I couldn't go to the shows with

I guess I should've explained

There was a side of this city I didn't want you to see

There's just these guys that I know we go back pretty deep

And I hope this whole thing didn't frighten you

There were times that it terrified me

I know what they said I don't know if it's true

I hope this whole thing didn't frighten you

They never care if it's true

As long as they got something to prove

And they always got something to prove

And the room full of dudes

And they cranked up the tunes

And I could tell this whole thing kind of frightened you

There was a side of this city I didn't want you to see

There's just these guys that I know we go back pretty deep

I saw you look at his shoes I saw you look at their teeth

I could tell this whole thing kind of frightened you

So you tapped me on the arm like you wanted to cruise

I could tell this whole thing kind of frightened you