Family Farm - The Hold Steady

St. Catherine’s was a nightmare

You know they took away my headphones

Sure they let you keep your handset

But the courtyard is a dead zone

And the nurse that they assigned me

Had Eruption as her ring tone

Blasting out through built-in speakers like it’s bug spray

Buzzing like a hornet halfway blown

If you’re still in Pennsylvania

I’d advise you not to leave

Take some nickels from the fountain

Make your friends and fall asleep

Let your sins be of omission

I wish you wouldn’t engage with all these creeps

'Cause they’re never going to love you that one specific way

That you want them all to love you

(The way you want them to love you)

(The way you want them to love you)

With a flexible schedule and a willingness to trade your medications

(The way you want them to love you)

Obsessive and controlling and coming up on total suffocation

She came into the cantina singing «This Must Be The Place»

Said faithful has its limits I just want to see his face

Before she took her shot she said a little grace

Said Lord grant me the power to stop these hands from shaking

I’d been falling in the fountain since a week or so before

I’d been rattled by the accident, my shoulders were still sore

I almost rolled my eyes when they asked me how to score

But sometimes it feels sweet to be the teacher

When she was combing through the carpet I could not resist her charms

She brought me to a fortress, she called the family farm

And out along the towers there were guards with heavy arms

I guess there was some tension with the neighbors

Tripping at the airstrip, drinking on the runway

Laughing at the jets as we watched them fly away

She said you get what you get when you push too far ahead

They put us in these places for a reason

(The way you want them to love you)

(The way you want them to love you)

Shaking your head with resignation masquerading as wisdom

(The way you want them to love you)

Leaning on the lamp post just jangling the keys to the kingdom

(The way you want them to love you)

Listing in the lobby of a hotel on the highway

Not sure you even want to be rescued

(The way you want them to love you)

'Cause they’re never going to love you that one specific way

That you want them all to love you

(The way you want them to love you)

And you want them all to love you