[Verse 1]
Children, Broadripple is burning
And the girls are getting sick
Of huffing glue up in the bathroom
While their boyfriends pick up chicks
And darling, I'm lost
I heard you whispering that night in Fountain Square
The trash-filled streets made me wish
We were headed home

[Verse 2]
And there was love inside the basement
Where that woman used to lie
In a sleeping bag we shared
Upon the floor most every night
And darling, I'm drunk
And everything that I have loved has turned to stone
So pack your bags
And come back home

[Chorus]
And I'm wasted, you can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost
[Verse 3]
And if my woman was a fire
She'd burn out before I wake
And be replaced by pints of whiskey
Cigarettes and outer space
Then somebody moves
And everything you thought you had has gone to shit
But we've got a lot
Don't ever forget that

[Verse 4]
And I wrote this on an airplane
Where the people looked like eggs
And when a woman that you loved is gone
She's bombing east Japan
Don't fucking move
'Cause everything you think you have will go to shit
But we've got a lot
Don't you dare forget that

[Chorus]
And I'm wasted, you can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost
[Chorus]
And I'm wasted, you can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost