Loro Piana from Continental Breakfast by Phoned In

You were Slash from GnR for Halloween
But you never told your parents about anything
The broken china set and the baseball bat
The kids you sent home crying to their dads

You came into all through moments of touch
And contact with her that she just brushed off
So you loved the sensation of a Sunday morning keg stand,
The way your legs floated while others held them

Your river of recourse turned into a public hanging
And all the punk kids shouted howls of execration
“I hate you!” “I love you!” “I hate you all over again!”

I could call you up in the middle of the night
And you’d materialize by the morning light
Misplaced keys a broken heart and an STD

I could piss and pout like a debutante
Day in, day out in the middle of Sprouts
Or I could throw on Elton John’s “Levon” and get on out

Sprawled out on a Tallahassee golf course
Hidden bodies in the back of your dad’s Porsche
Patchwork madras, a sudden blow
Forget about it kid, that’s just how things go

Can we reconcile a duel of fates?
A will to sickliness, a will to hate
The black void in a black mug of coffee
The same set of rules my father gave me

Your river of recourse turned into a public hanging
And all the punk kids shouted howls of execration
“I hate you!” “I love you!” “I hate you all over again!”

I could call you up in the middle of the night
And you’d materialize by the morning light
Misplaced keys a broken heart and an STD

I could piss and out like a debutante
Day in, day out in the middle of Sprouts
Or I could throw on Elton John’s “Levon” and get on out

• Punk
• alt-country
• emo
• power pop
• punk rock
• the lemonheads
• United States