Johnny is dead
No hands can hold him back
Dissolving into subway stations
Malt liquor, surprise attacks

Send is voice to the army
He don't need it anymore
Send is soul to the bathroom
He'll be as dirty as before

Brother Bill got down
And when he got there, he did cry
The sisters of electricity
They heaved and they sighed

But the organist is assassinated
The Devil is out on his parole
The fires keep getting hotter
The glacier is out of control

And it's goodbye to Cadillac
Farewell to steel
Goodbye to the motion
Inside the memory of the wheel

The girls at the bust stop
Know exactly what I want
But leave them over my shoulder
Because they don't need what I got

What is the song
That makes my ears bleed?
I heard it on the radio at the dentist
And it really got through to me

I searched every station
Even left my house to go to the store
That song was never written
Baby that poet was never born

Sister Sue dressed in blue spent
Hemingway's very last chance
Now she sits in forgotten motor inns
Watching reruns of Mash

Swallowing seven of these
And four of those with a glass in every hand
When the cops found her, she was canceled
Now she smiles when she can

Sweet Nora had a hole in her heart
Shaped as a man
She woke up to the sound of the garbage trucks
And she couldn't understand

That the big city ain't no place
For no shy violet
Now the jet plane is in the McDonald's
And they're cooking up the pilot

And it's goodbye to Cadillac
Farewell to steel
Goodbye to the motion
Inside the memory of the wheel

The girls at the bust stop
Know exactly what I want
But leave them over my shoulder
Because they don't need what I got