Her lipstick stains like acid rain Dissolving away my sense of restraint The streetlamps burned through the cloak of the fog So come to me So come for me Concealing the violence, I've been stung by the wasp No sense of restraint I've been stung by the

I can't get you out of my head God knows I've tried But I just can't forget Those crazy nights And all the things that we did Well, I don't know just what it is Maybe it was the way you talked Maybe it was the way you laughed But I know I want you back

Sometimes I don't know which way to go 'cause I'm walking on a high wire Have to pull it together Feel so washed up today Haven't really got much to say Blood on the pillow of my bed Explains the pain that's in my head Sometimes I can't tell, but it's

You can have Charleston My home, my heart Where I was born and raised Where one day they're gonna take my body And lay it in a grave But it's got to be this way It's gonna break my heart to say, goodbye But it'll kill me if I stay The cobblestone streets

What's my age again, what's my age again? Nobody likes you when you're twenty three My friends say I should act my age And that's about the time she walked away from me I took her out, it was a Friday night I wore cologne to get the feeling right We

I don't wanna waste it, don't wanna waste it I don't wanna waste it, don't wanna waste tonight And I need your love I don't wanna say goodbye to another night And watch you walk away And make the same mistakes, this time And I don't wanna let it burn in

Parasite lady Parasite eyes No need to cry She'll always be there trying to grab a hold She thought she knew me, but she didn't know That I was sad and wanted her to go I didn't want to have to get away I told her things I didn't want to say I need her

And I will try Try to hold you Even though love is going to kill me With my arms around your heart They came along and washed my soul so easy High above myself, but I could hear them anyway The wind is taking them away so feathery To show them all the

Pulling the last cry, I was alive (alive!) While I'm down in my hatred, weird, right (right!) Your god has set you on fire, this day the darkness light your way When we, reach this final dusk Bring me fire and insanity The jet-black eyes are showing

Well I woke up this mornin' it was drizzlin' rain Around the curve come a passenger train Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan Jimmy he's dead he's been a long time gone Been a long time gone a long time gone If you wanna get to heaven gotta D-I-E you