bell the cat Lyrics

Knockdown drag out, a bureaucratic shakedown

It's a straight-up cop-out

In a working-class ghost town

The nighttimes are wild, don't leave me here to bell the cat

And all the while she drank chamomile and read from the almanac

Knockdown drag out, she's an elemental machine

Adrift in the carnage of her broken parts and a dopamine smokescreen

Enough to shake her heart into rags, rose cheeks, and flash of teeth

She left her kids in a parking lot at the jai alai on Main Street

Blue light eye drops, she smelled of coke and rum

She's a train wreck that runs on schedule and I'm the pill end of her tongue

Knockdown-dragout, a bureaucratic shakedown

It's a straight-out cop-out

In a working-class ghost town

The nighttimes are wild, don't leave me here to bell the cat

And all the while she drank chamomile and read from the almanac

Blue light eye drops, she smelled of coke and rum

She's a train wreck that runs on schedule and I'm the pill end of her tongue

When the power goes out in a Havana

And the hurricane washes all the bridges out

I'm in a ditch-rolled convertible on a trip to kingdom come

But no worries, some jogger will find my dead body

Back at the hotel, laying in bed

She felt like she was the last person on earth

But she also thinks in amusing kinks which she writes on her business card

A blusher with a buxom lover who just loves Marquis de Sade