they called her the murder sag later on
yeah they said somethin' musta gone wrong
when she got off that cross she was hangin' on
our boy Kef called her sweet
and he wrote her into the heartbeat
of every song he's ever drawn
she keeps singin' along even if it's too late to keep the radio on
the boys keep ramblin' on
they can't admit the summer's gone
she got out of town a couple of days after it went down
said she'd try to start again
in a city that was downwind

gettin' hard up in the summit lots
gettin' soft to the hot rock
scratchin' at the window itchin' for the bright and new
we were drop dead courageous
we burned, they were contagious
and that feeling took us high as hell we flew
she was an easy girl to fall for
and she liked the boys who were all for her
she told them she knew exactly what to do
she had some real big ideas and we couldn't feel any fears
we were singin' to the tailer when we bled right through
massachusetts avenue

oh it's a north shore dustbowl by the break of dawn
the Kids in Cars they were barely hangin' on
she was kissing him in the back of some Red Pontiac Trans Am
still diggin' the vibe from the all night jam
oh Lord, he was diggin' it and he was all wrapped up in the visuals of it
she said "Baby don't leave me,
yeah, I might need you for these mournings.
Oh, I might wanna go explorin'."

gettin' hard up in the summit lots
gettin' soft to the hot rock
scratchin' at the window itchin' for the bright and new
we were drop dead courageous
we burned, they were contagious
and that feeling took us high as hell we flew
she was an easy girl to fall for
and she loved the boys who were all for her
she told them she knew exactly what to do
she had some real big ideas and we couldn't feel any fears
we were singin' to the tailer when we bled right through
massachusetts avenue

they had matching hearts and dreams
we were piled in and stuck in
this pinprick of a town
that didn't even have it's own music scene
so we picked up our gear
and gathered all around and started movin' out
dressed down, some dead on the ground
and we didn't play all that well
but his tongue bore through her like a shotgun shell

I said "No, I won't go,
not till I've seen this thing through."