Hellbent and I feel unlucky
I wish it would rain

People keep talking about me
Getting into my head

Showed up at your door on Sunday
Wouldn't let me in
Showed up at your door on Sunday
Cold treatment

Heard you been talking about me
Getting into my head

Hellbent and I feel unlucky
I wish it would rain

People keep talking about me
Getting into my head

Cold Treatment

Hey there, vicious kid!
Where'd you find the nerve to scare us with?
Did you think that you'd be free to say anything you damn well please?

Where's your mom, where's your dad?
Do they know you're wrong in the head?
Or are they busy telling lies and covering for you?

The whole world knows your name
Word of mouth knows no shame
All your friends they look to you to make them feel important

We know you'll never leave
You keep burning through the centuries
You always have your time in the sun
Drinking it up like cheap Corona

Can't you hold your wicked tongue?
Or are you having too much fun?
Are you still not sure anyone will put their faith in you?

Don't mind the voice in your head telling you you're full of it
A little bit of misery's all you need to sell your foolish dreams...

Will not come true

Hey there, vicious kid!
Where'd you find the nerve to scare us with?
Did you think that you'd be free to say anything you damn well please?

Boy Blunder

Local...
How did you end up here?
Local...
How did you end up here?

Never seen your face before
Never heard your name before
Yet you seem so familiar
How did you end up here?

We've been...
Neighbors for so long
We've been...
Singing the same damn song

Now I turn my back on you
Still, I'm watching all your moves
My namesake is your ridicule
How did you end up here?

Local...
How did you end up here?
Local...
How did you end up here?

Streets that once belonged to you
Now have names you never knew
Guess you'll have to just make do
How did you end up here?

Local

See my town of the ruined roads
Tall grass growing in the swimming pools
Cowtails swinging like clocks in the wind
Nobody knows when the damn day begins

Jay's on the corner only bar in town
With the crossed-eyed stars hanging all around
The owner's blind, a misleader of men
Left his will by the riverbed

Singing, say hello to Cairo for me
Once a postcard, now a tragedy

Colors of life all divided at birth
Passed through the arms of St. Mary's Church
They grew up small in the Garden St. light
Under the suffering southern night

Singing, say hello to Cairo for me
Once a postcard, now a tragedy

You can say what you wanna say
You can say what you wanna say
You can say whatever the hell you wanna say
Cuz it's a part of you anyway

Fella with the shack near the shady tree
"Can't get no worse," he says, "Take it from me."
"Gotta stand up when you're down and low."
"Don't curse the town that you call your own."

Singing, say hello to Cairo for me

Matt Perish