Silver Jews - Ballad Of Reverend War Character lyrics

Miss Mary Jane measures rain in a cracked cup on the sill In Embry's last photograph he disappears over a hill Darrell Dotson waits in the gra** for a fight the stars don't shine upon us we're in the way of their light The new girl in Tahoe has swallowed Sinatra's cum A Russian primadonna dances slow on valium After the game the benchwarmer can't get a ride in space there is no center we're always off to the side John Parker III steps over a bird on a Wall St. window ledge Little Wilkie finds a dead cat rotting deep inside the hedge Mahalia Roach dies on a Greyhound coach in July in a horror movie when the car won't start you give it one last try Guinnevere orders one more beer in the smokey pick-up bar A burnt out tramp by the exit ramp waits for one more car The Latin teacher always smelled like piss the census figures come out wrong there's an extra in our midst