[Verse 1]
You've sewn me up, stuffed up with fear
My heart unsteady through the years
Its need to beat is need-to-know
You dig the grave, I'll find the hole
The street song plays on and on
(Give the girl a little love she can lean on)
So when you feel me you can
Lift your hands in praise

[Chorus]
Red hot and holy
Could you touch me like you told me?
I'm low down and lonely
All you can give me now is something that I don’t need
Oh, you're everything I don’t need

[Verse 2]
Untangling strings so queer
Tied up tight in a dress that never fit
You treated me like a souvenir
Wrapped in plastic—suffocated counterfeit
Black licorice
I’m feverish
All your prayers from your pew couldn’t save me
[Chorus]
Red hot and holy
Could you touch me like you told me?
I'm low down and lonely
All you can give me now is something that I don't need
Red hot and holy
How can you judge me? You don’t even know me
I'm low down and lonely
All you can give me is everything I don't need

You're everything I don't need

[Bridge]
My inconspicuous friends
Collect their partners and bend
But I don't know if I know

I don't think love is a science
I think that love is a violence
And it's striking a blow

So get up, get up and make it harder
Get up and pretend to be a martyr
'Cause I'm a liar baby, and you're a liar baby
We're all liars lately
Red hot and holy
Could you touch me like you told me?

[Chorus]
Red hot and holy
Could you touch me like you told me?
I'm low down and lonely
All you can give me now is something that I don't need
Red hot and holy
How can you judge me? You don’t even know me
I'm low down and lonely
All you can give me is everything I don't need

[Outro]
Black licorice
I'm feverish
All your prayers from the pew couldn't save me
I'm low down and lonely
Good God
All you can give me
Give me until I bleed, bleed, bleed
You're everything I don't need