The Mountain Goats - Dance Music lyrics

alright i'm in johnson avenue in San Louis Obispo and i'm five years old or six maybe and indications that there's something wrong with our new house trip down the wire twice daily i'm in the living room watching the watergate hearings while my stepfather yells at my mother launches a gla** across the room straight at her head and i dash upstairs to take cover lean in close to my little record player on the floor so this is what the volume knob's for i listen to dance music dance music okay so i'm seventeen years old you're the last best thing i got going but then the special secret sickness starts to eat through you what am i supposed to do? no way of knowing so i follow you down your twisting alleyways find a few cul-de-sacs of my own there's only one place this road ever ends up and i don't wanna die alone let me down, let me down, let me down gently when the police come to get me i'm listenin' to dance music dance music