Boys And Girls In America

The Hold Steady Boys And Girls In America Lyrics
1.For Boston

It's poison, first it feels like a prick and then it hits you
like a jumbo jet.
It's heaven, and heaven is a place you can never find your
cigarettes.
For Boston, shamrock shakes and Oxycontin.
Bob Cousy, when they say they're looking around for the O.C.
they ain't talking about the TV.
Some townie, he's got a diamond wrapped up in a dishtowel and
he's trying to do a deal with me,
and he's skittish like a centipede.
He's got a steak knife in his jacket sleeve.
For Boston, shamrock shakes and Oxycontin.
For Boston, you can find it at the corner of the Commons right
by Downtown Crossing.
These girls at BU they all do it too.
They lie down on Lansdowne, they lose their left shoes.
These girls at BU they all do it too.
She stumbled down Lansdowne, she lost her left shoe,
and she lost all her friends, and she's crying and she needs a
ride home.
You just want it to end
She lost her new phone,
she despises her friends,
and when you get her back to housing,
she asks if you want to come in and get pinned.
For Boston, you can solve all your problems in the Commons right
by Downtown Crossing
In Brighton, St. Elizabeth is sick of all your drinking and
fighting.
In Allston, there are nights when you get pretty annoying.


2.Arms And Hearts

To me it just felt like six or seven seconds,
But I guess we went coast to coast
To me he didn't seem all that holy,
But I guess he might have been that ghost

I'm not saying that he came off all that hot
He burned a hole in me eventually
I've been mostly living in the center of your most Holy Trinity

So maybe now you might go out with me,
'cause I got so much positivity
And I've got so much positivity

There were amber waves of grain,
And hawks and rustle thrushes
There were serotonin rushes.
There were purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain
There were diamonds in the drain.

To me it didn't seem all that much better
When he went and climbed up on that cross
To me you didn't seem all that much like a princess with your
Bandaged hands and your hacking cough.

Arms and hearts and alcohol and faith
We pull each other in and then we push it all away
Arms and hearts and alcohol and faith
We pull each other in and then we push it all away

There were crosses and crushes, crashes and hassles
We were kissing in the center while the band played 'Ice Cream
Castles'

Arms and hearts and alcohol and death
She was awkward and thoughtful and ascending into heaven
dripping wet.

Arms and hearts and alcohol and faith
We pull each other in and then we push it all away
Arms and hearts and alcohol and faith
We pull each other in and then we push it all away

There were crosses and crushes and crashes and hassles
We were kissing in the center while the band played 'ice cream
castles'

Arms and hearts and alcohol and death
She was awkward and thoughtful and ascending into heaven
dripping wet.

Arms and hearts and alcohol and faith
We pull each other in and then we push it all away
Arms and hearts and alcohol and faith
We pull each other in and then we push it all away

There were crosses and crushes and crashes and hassles
We were kissing in the center while the band played 'Ice Cream
Castles'

Arms and hearts and alcohol and death
She was awkward and thoughtful and ascending into heaven
dripping wet


3.American Music

Do you like amercan music
I like american music
Dont you like american music baby
I want you to hold me
I want your arms around me
I want you to hold me baby
Did you do too many drugs
I did too many drugs
Did you do too many drugs too baby
You were born too late
I was born too soon
But every time I look at that ugly moon
It reminds me of you
It reminds me of you ooh ooh ooh
I need a date to the prom
Would you like to come along
But nobody would go to the prom with me baby
They didnt like american music
They never heard american music
They didnt know the music was in my soul baby
You were born too soon
I was born too late
But every time I look at that ugly lake
It reminds me of me
It reminds me of me
Do you like american music
We like american music
I like american music baby
Do you like american music
We like all kinds of music
But I like american music best
Baby you were born too late
And I was born too late
But every time I look at that ugly lake
It reminds me of me
It reminds me of me
Do you like american music
It reminds me of me
Do you like american music...