Broadripple is Burning

[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