BLOTTER KIDS
blotter kids
they curl around you
like they’re made of smoke uh huh
blotter kids
they sing of haunted women
while you choke uh huh

they’re gonna take you down
to the canyon mister
and show you
that it ain’t no joke oh yeah
they’re gonna take you down
in the canyon mister
and show you what they’ve got
on that rope oh yeah

blotter kids
they lock you down there
in your six foot deep alright
blotter kids
they know where you’ve been
walking in your sleep
all night

they’re gonna take you down
to the canyon baby
and pray your soul to keep oh yeah
they’re gonna take you down
in the canyon baby
there’s pleasure in defeat oh yeah

blotter kids
show you just exactly
what you’re not uh huh
blotter kids
they hold your hand so gently
through the shot uh huh

they’re gonna take you down
the canyon maybe
and show you how you got caught oh yeah
they’re gonna take you down
in the canyon baby
and tease you while you get bought
oh yeah oh yeah

SONG FOR STRANGERS
there are strangers
loving you tonight
and they don’t need to find out
where you go
here come the changes
this is not a life
when you’re rolling, when you’re rolling
on your own

you got the message
i didn’t need to speak
we stayed silent
through the summer and the fall
you got undressed then
pressed yourself against the breach
like you know you’ve got
no time left at all, got no time at all

there are strangers loving you tonight
there are strangers
loving you tonight

two can tell the same story
two can tell the same lie
two can tell two can tell
the same storied
deceptiion i’m receptive
to the lie … and loving you tonight

(LOOKIN FOR SOME) GUTTERTIMEZ
this is a song
for the cities let ‘em burn
this is a song

i saw my angel fall
right down in the gutter
she made a last phone call
and then she made another
she made the devil cry
cuz he was so damn lonely
but i was right by his side
i said “kid we are only
looking for some guttertimez”

i fell into your lap
my life is kind of ala carte, see
i climbed over the wall
i crashed your halloween party
oh yeah i got so stoned
when laying down in your cellar
i knew it down to my bones
i was a real fine feller
uh just ooking for some guttertimez

and then my angel rose
flew over the mountain
flew above the sun
dropped me down into the fountain
and then i woke up again
laying down in the gutter
yeah i had found my way home
i’d never need another
i made the devil cry
with some lame sob story
the years are rolling by
now maybe you would like to join me
out lookin for some guttertimez

BACK AT THE OLD HOTEL
i was your friend
back at the old hotel
i still have that coat you wore
that season we spent in hell
i lit out for another city
where no-one knew my name
and i moved back to my home town
where no-one knows
my name

and the rain
keeps pouring
down

i truly loved you
but i guess i’m just a little bit evil
never said a word my love
you just held me and i believed you
i went on hustling
that old soft shoe for a dime
i gave you everything
everything
just to feel like something was mine

and the rain
keeps pouring
down

i was your friend
back at the old hotel
you know i did not have a friend
back
at the old hotel