Ballad of Reverend War Character - Silver Jews

Miss Mary Jane measures rain

In a cracked cup on the sill

In Embry’s last photograph

He disappears over a hill

Darrell Dotson waits in the grass for a fight

The stars don’t shine upon us

We’re in the way of their light

No, the stars don’t shine upon us

We’re in the way of their light

The new girl in Tahoe

Has swallowed Sinatra’s cum

A Russian primadonna

Dances slow on Valium

After the game

The benchwarmer can’t get a ride

In space, there is no center

We’re always off to the side

In space, there is no center

We’re always off to the side

John Parker the III steps over a bird

On a Wall Street window ledge

Little Wilkie, dead cat rotting

Deep inside the hedge

Mahalia Roach dies on a

Greyhound coach in July

In a horror movie when the car won’t start

You give it one last try

In a horror movie when the car won’t start

You give it one last try

Guinnevere orders one more beer

In the smokey pick-up bar

A burnt out tramp by the exit ramp

Waits for one more car, one more car

The Latin teacher always smelled like piss

The census figures come out wrong

There’s an extra in our midst

The census figures come out wrong

There’s an extra in our midst