Rotting Strip-Crooked Fingers

[ti:Rotting Strip] [ar:Crooked Fingers] [al:Crooked Fingers Live at The Casbah 11/05/2004] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rotting Strip - Crooked Fingers [00:32.79]Blurry eyes half bent and I can't take you sober [00:40.41] [00:41.54]Tricking off the rotting strip [00:45.40]That we've been trudging under [00:49.43] [00:50.01]We ducked into a dim lit room out [00:54.47]Where the river bends [00:57.73] [00:58.76]And turned to walk the burning bridge [01:02.90]That we had build [01:05.09]And crossed our hearts half hoping [01:08.50] [01:09.61]That we could both quit smoking [01:12.84] [01:13.88]And kick the booze and blow [01:17.63] [01:18.15]And one day go make something of ourselves [01:23.62] [01:27.02]Glory came and went [01:30.13] [01:30.79]The night we both slipped under [01:34.57] [01:35.74]Neath the row of oil slicks [01:39.53]And ancient ugly lovers [01:44.36]Some they say the price you pay [01:47.86] [01:48.37]Is far too much to spend [01:52.88]But they don't know the cost is fair [01:56.81]If for a while [01:58.54]It keeps your heart from crumbling [02:02.62] [02:05.35]And we'd take what we want [02:07.52]When we knew what we wanted [02:09.64]When we wished we had something to lose [02:13.65]You were a fine young thing [02:16.83] [02:17.78]Crammed in your tight red vinyl jeans [02:22.08]I was a third rate going nowhere [02:27.35]Burning for nothing to do [02:29.86] [02:52.68]And boredom settled in and I can't take you sober [03:00.68] [03:01.63]Strewn across the rotting strip [03:05.43]That we've been building over [03:09.22] [03:09.88]Till nothing made it's wicked way [03:13.57]Slow creeping into view [03:17.35] [03:18.33]Where we could watch the burning bridge [03:22.28]That we half built [03:24.39]Across our hearts now broken [03:27.74] [03:29.10]And we could both quit smoking [03:31.82] [03:33.11]And kick the booze and blow [03:37.07]And one day go make something of ourselves [03:42.82] [03:45.15]And we'd take what we want [03:47.36]When we knew what we wanted [03:49.46]When we wished we had something to lose [03:53.21]You were a fine young thing [03:56.59] [03:57.33]Crammed in your tight red vinyl jeans [04:01.74]I was a third rate going nowhere [04:06.27] [04:07.00]Burning for nothing to do [04:09.90] [04:10.47]So we branded our hearts and we toasted the stars [04:15.20]Getting wasted by the light of the moon [04:18.55]You were a two bit tramp [04:22.42] [04:22.94]And I was a low life lying scam [04:26.52] [04:27.14]We were a bad lay [04:29.58] [04:30.18]Coming undone [04:31.62] [04:32.23]Burning for someone to you