The rain-rotted house on the dead end of Baytree, old bitter lady

Sits caddy corner to the aftershock from the quarry

She says "America's a spoiled child that's ignorant of grief"

But then she gives out full-sized candy bars on Halloween

We had to add it to the tab

To die, we'd have to settle up

So we just go until we can't

Or burn it down to feel the heat

The Kletz brothers' parents fight in the yard in their underwear

Bobby and Jimmy sit in the baby pool with lice in their hair

They have scoliosis from constant slumps in misery

Flat parts on their crew cuts from laying their heads on their knees

We had to add it to the tab

To die, we'd have to settle up

So we just go until we can't

Or burn it down to feel the heat

Georgie set fire to acres of cotton setting off model rockets

The kid from the Jewish family got the preacher's kid pregnant

They sent her off and we never heard too much more about it

The sweet talk never lasts and you learn to go on without it

We had to add it to the tab

To die, we'd have to settle up

So we just go until we can't

Or burn it down to feel the heat

Somebody called the cops on Mandy and her boyfriend

When they busted in they found that her house was a front for a mob thing

They pulled guns and cocaine from the drywall wrapped in newspaper

We gathered in the tall grass and watched unblinking as they cuffed 'em and hauled 'em away

We had to add it to the tab

To die, we'd have to settle up

So we just go until we can't

Or burn it down to feel the heat

When we give up, we go

To sleep