Candidate

I'll make you a deal,
like any other candidate

We'll pretend we're walking home
'cause your future's at stake
My set is amazing,
it even smells like a
street

There's a bar at the end
where I can meet you
and your friend
Someone scrawled on the wall
"I smell the blood of les tricoteuses"
Who wrote up scandals in other bars

I'm having so
much fun with the poisonous people
Spreading rumours and lies
and stories they made up

Some make you sing
and some make you scream
One makes you wish
that you'd never been seen
But there's a shop on the corner
that's selling papier mache

Making bullet-proof faces,
Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay
If you want it, boys,
get it here, thing
So you scream out of line

"I want you! I need you!
Anyone out there?
Any time?"
Tres butch little number whines
"Hey dirty, I want you
When it's good, it's really good,
and when it's bad I go to pieces"
If you want it, boys,
get it here, thing

Well, on the street where you live
I could not hold up my head
For I put all
I have in another bed
On another floor
in the back of a car
In the cellar like a church
with the door ajar
Well,
I guess we've must be looking
for a different kind

But we can't stop trying 'til
we break up our minds
Til the sun drips blood
on the seedy young knights
Who press you on the ground
while shaking in fright

I guess we could cruise
down one more time

With you by my side,
it should be fine

We'll buy some drugs
and watch a band

Then jump in the river
holding hands