Talking Your Ear Off

I heard a masochist went home
I'm still here pokin' holes
Deep inside my skin
Just so I fit in

But you know I never do
Oh you know I never will
Tell me who I have to kill 'round here
Just to get some pills 'round here

My boss left me alone
I called you on the phone
Just to say my paychecks thick
We can finally take that trip

To the Gulf of Mexico
Where the local sea town is slow
And oh for heaven's sake
Oh hunny take a break

Oh this aint my home, this is a hospital
I'm so damn retro, I caught polio
I can barely walk, but I can sure as hell talk
I'm talkin' talkin' talkin' your ear off

(1, 2, 3, 4)

K-k-k-kitty had a dream
I called and I was mean
I didn't have the heart to tell her
She was in her sleep

So I drank myself annoyed
And I drank myself a son
I went and turned 21
And drinkin' hasn't lost it's fun

A businessman just bought the sun
It's such a hard business to run
'Cause everybody needs their light
But everybody's got their price

Traded money in for guns
I traded bullets in for love
Everyone I know has become
Bold and bitter skeletons

(x2)
Oh this aint my home, this is a hospital
I'm so damn retro, I caught Polio
I can barely walk, but I can sure as hell talk
I'm talkin' talkin' talkin' your ear off

This ain't my home
This is a hospital
I'm so damn retro
I caught polio