Naked and Craven Lyrics

I went down to the other town, it was quite a site to see

Ten young turks in a circle jerk, or a back-scratching orgy

What a treat for me, to remember why I had to leave:

Because all that self-importance makes the tricks fall out your sleeve

Every guy's gotta compromise, every girl must draw her lines

Synthesize all the warring sides, and try to keep shit anodyne

So I'm killing time, but time is killing me

And it hurts to step up only to be accused of villainy

Cause it ain't no way of living, to be busted all the time

So if they dub me unforgiven, deep down I feel just fine

It's their loss, not mine

That kind of sweetness has an aftertaste of turpentine

Cause the naked and the craven always give it all they can

And their styles are sweetly brazen, but they fail to understand

The song defines the man

And their fashion sense is molten

And their aphorisms golden

But somebody should have told them

You gotta make us give a damn