The Hold Steady - The Most Important Thing lyrics

Yeah, and when the band played Sally Cinnamon It felt like 1991 again Didn't get into them too early in But I still got into them Right now that seems like it's the most important thing That's the thing about Gideon And that's just a little bit about so many things He knows too much about certain things He knows some guys who know some Latin Kings Right now that seems like it's pretty much the only thing We're baby birds with broken wings and we sing Yeah, we sing unity songs but the scene's still splintered We're stretched thin and we're stressed at the seams And we dream Yeah we dream like screen[?], but we're still out of focus Sure, we know it's just showbiz It still seems to surprise us When they hook us by the mouth and pull us up And then they try to fry us That's the thing about Charlemagne He got all washed up in the amber waves of grain Roughed up in the bars and the bluffs Tangled up in the double dutch You know he drank too much, he never really ate enough It was so, so sad, with Charly in a sick bed He looked like hell and smelled like chemicals Maxin' out on medicine and feelin' all invincible ICU in Regions Hospital It felt so cool with Holly at the bus stop Yeah, we could feel it comin' through our arteries We're runnin' low on energy and nodding off in reverie Faded blues in Memphis, Tennessee The Mississippi River always holds it all together Yeah, we sing unity songs but the scene's still splintered We're stretched thin and we're stressed at the seams and we dream Yeah we dream like screen, but we're still out of focus Sure, we know it's just showbiz It still seems to surprise us When they hook us by the mouth and pull us up And then they try to fry us Done a pretty good job of fryin' ourselves, I think As she goes blastin' static - Music from the Big Pink Stumbled into the foyer and pulled the bookshelf over Yeah, we were drowning in the literature Bram Stoker hit your head Ginsburg hit your dick A big black Bible hit your head And that's how we got born again