Don't Let Me Explode - The Hold Steady

He said «What about Los Angeles?»

She said «We never really made it that far west»

Yeah, we scored big in Denver

And we thought it might be best

To go hang around

In the upper Midwest

Yeah, And he said «What about New Orleans?»

She said «I don’t think you understand what that means»

And all those hangers-on

These girls lifting up their shirts when the cameras come on

Yeah, we were trying to stay away from those kind of scenes

Yeah, we didn’t go to Dallas

Yeah, cause Jackie Onassis said

That it ain’t safe for Catholics yet

Think about what they pulled on Kennedy

And then think about his security

Yeah, then think about what they might try to pull on you and me

Saint Barbara, I’m calling your name

Don’t let me blow up

We’ll hook it all up

I guess there’s fields of speed where there’s fields of grain

Saint Barbara, don’t let me explode

I can feel the whole scene

Starting to corrode

When we’re fooling around on the frontage roads

He asked what happened to Charlemagne

She just smiled all polite-like and said something vague

She said «Charlemagne got caught up in some complicated things»

Yeah, then she wiped at her nose and she winked