Chillout Tent

[Craig Finn]

There was a stage and a PA

Up in western Massachusetts

And the kids came from miles around

To get messed up on the music

And she drove down from Bowdoin

With a carload of girlfriends

To meet some boys

And maybe eat some mushrooms

And they did and she got sick

Now she's pinned and way too shaky

She don't want to tell the doctor

Everything she's taken

The paramedics hovered over

Like a somber, mourning family

They gave her activated charcoal

They flooded her with saline

[Elizabeth Elmore]

I got really hot and then I came to in the chillout tent

They gave me oranges and cigarettes

[Craig Finn]

He was rough around the edges

He'd been to school but never finished

He'd been to jail but never prison

And it was his first day off in forever, man

The festival seemed like a pretty good plan

Cruise some chicks and get a sun-tan

His friend gave him four

But he said, "Only take one"

But then, he got bored

And he ended up taking all four

So now, my man, he ain't that bored, anyways

The paramedics found him

He was shaking on the side of the stage

[Dave Pirner, Elizabeth Elmore, & Both]

Everything was spinning; then, I came to in the chillout tent

They gave me oranges and cigarettes

I got really hot and then I came to in the chillout tent

They gave us oranges and cigarettes

[Craig Finn]

She looked just like a baby bird

All new and wet and trying to light a Parliament

He quoted her some poetry

He's Tennyson in denim and sheepskin

He looked a lot like Izzy Stradlin

They started kissing when the nurses took off their IVs

It was kind of of sexy, but it was kind of creepy

Their mouths were fizzy with the cherry cola

They had the privacy of bedsheets

And all the other kids were mostly in comas

[Dave Pirner & Elizabeth Elmore]

He was kind of cute, we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent

And I never saw that boy again

She was pretty cool, we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent

And I never saw that girl again

He was kind of cute, we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent

And I never saw that boy again

She seemed pretty cool, we kind of kicked it in the chillout tent

And I never saw that girl again