Don't They Shoot Horses Lyrics

When did I stop sleepwalking on the hotel ledge

Stitched the wound in my side

I removed the thorn from my godhead

When was the last time I woke up under the bed

There's a box spring and linen sheets

I'm pretty far from the primitive

Still getting used to these lemon-scented incentives

Disregarded fact and figures

When you take the measure of man

Will I keep coming up short

Don't they shoot horses

When they can't run anymore

What do you do when it's all you've been good for

Don't you know everything eats everything out there

From the apple that ruined Paris

To the mirror that thinks you're the fairest

I hear electric lady razor's singing blades

Over a cold bowl of corn flakes

I'm just a feast for the corn snakes

Still getting used to this burnished metal fridge

How trivial the burning bridge

Clear the rats from the rose bush

Until there's nothing but thorns

Don't they shoot horses

When they can't run anymore

And you with your blue swimming pool

And your wrap around porch

Don't they shoot horses

When they can't run anymore

Logic puzzles, masks, and muzzles

Have another baker's dozen

There's a bun burning the oven

Two drunks still in love

Disregard the facts and figures

Down the drain with shadow pictures

Permanent ink, pull the trigger

Like I know what to do

You probably don't mean what you say

But I shiver the words

Don't they shoot horses

When they can't run anymore

So what, I cleaned out the stables

There's no good into the chores

Don't they shoot horses

When they can't run anymore

Don't they shoot horses

When they can't run anymore

What do you do when it's all you were good for?