9th & Hennepin Lyrics

9th & Hennepin

Well it's Ninth and Hennepin
All the doughnuts have names that sound like
prostitutes
And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky
Like a tarp thrown
all over this
And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
And the steam
comes out of the grill
Like the whole goddamn town's ready to blow...
And
the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
And everyone is behaving
like dogs
And the horses are coming down Violin Road
And Dutch is dead on
his feet
And all the rooms they smell like diesel
And you take on the
dreams of the ones who have slept here
And I'm lost in the window, and I
hide in the stairway
And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your
hat...
And no one brings anything small into a bar around here
They all
started out with bad directions
And the girl behind the counter has a
tattooed tear
One for every year he's away, she said
Such a crumbling
beauty, ah
There's nothing wrong with her that a hundred dollars won't
fix
She has that razor sadness that only gets worse
With the clang and
the thunder of the Southern Pacific going by
And the clock ticks out like a
dripping faucet
til you're full of rag water and bitters and blue
ruin
And you spill out over the side to anyone who will listen...
And
I've seen it all, I've seen it all
Through the yellow windows of the evening
train...