Talking Your Ear Off

I heard a masochist went home

I'm still here pokin' holes

Deep inside my skin

Just so I fit in

But you know I never do

Oh you know I never will

Tell me who I have to kill 'round here

Just to get some pills 'round here

My boss left me alone

I called you on the phone

Just to say my paychecks thick

We can finally take that trip

To the Gulf of Mexico

Where the local sea town is slow

And oh for heaven's sake

Oh hunny take a break

Oh this aint my home, this is a hospital

I'm so damn retro, I caught polio

I can barely walk, but I can sure as hell talk

I'm talkin' talkin' talkin' your ear off

(1, 2, 3, 4)

K-k-k-kitty had a dream

I called and I was mean

I didn't have the heart to tell her

She was in her sleep

So I drank myself annoyed

And I drank myself a son

I went and turned 21

And drinkin' hasn't lost it's fun

A businessman just bought the sun

It's such a hard business to run

'Cause everybody needs their light

But everybody's got their price

Traded money in for guns

I traded bullets in for love

Everyone I know has become

Bold and bitter skeletons

(x2)

Oh this aint my home, this is a hospital

I'm so damn retro, I caught Polio

I can barely walk, but I can sure as hell talk

I'm talkin' talkin' talkin' your ear off

This ain't my home

This is a hospital

I'm so damn retro

I caught polio