Certain Songs-The Hold Steady

[ti:Certain Songs] [ar:The Hold Steady] [al:Almost Killed Me] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.46]Certain Songs - The Hold Steady [00:01.90] [00:22.04]I guess you're old enough to know [00:24.85] [00:27.50]Kids out on the east coast [00:30.12] [00:32.51]Roughly twenty years old [00:34.34] [00:37.03]They got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio [00:41.03] [00:43.96]Of warm beer to the summer smoke [00:46.59] [00:48.15]And the Meat Loaf to the Billy Joel [00:50.67] [00:53.41]Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls [00:56.44] [01:01.82]She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car [01:06.27] [01:10.40]She looks shallow but she's neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars [01:16.71] [01:21.84]She's pulling out her shirttails and she's jacking up her socks [01:25.71] [01:31.25]Stern and stoned and confident coming up towards the jukebox [01:36.38]Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along [01:40.36] [01:41.10]B-1 is for the good girls and it's "Only The Good Die Young" [01:44.81]C-9 is for the making eyes it's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" [01:50.81]B12 is for the speeders and D4 is for the lovers [01:55.12]And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends [02:00.17] [02:00.91]And they're playing it again [02:02.45] [02:04.51]And Ellen Foley gives 'em hope [02:06.26] [02:06.89]And certain songs they get scratched into our souls [02:09.97] [03:07.43]I guess you're old enough to know [03:09.31] [03:12.81]Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes [03:16.40] [03:18.09]Screwing in the surf and going out to shows [03:21.31] [03:23.37]They get high and ride around in GTOs [03:26.54] [03:33.31]Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls [03:36.62] [03:42.74]Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls