Teenage girls on skateboards Riding past my window Storm rolls in from Africa And rain falls on the shingles Teenage girls and skinny bones Running from the rain Power cuts out on the neighborhood And I'm in the dark again She had bare ankles, that's a plus Simple desire and demand met By the girl who swore to God That cold would cause her untimely death God swore, "Bless the little one" But then this off his dirty secret Baby blue gossiped green his gossamer halo polished I rub my handle upon my sleeve And my apple upon the other I see which one of these is coming clean And which wasn't worth the bother I got a job that I am saving for A wife and kids I'm waiting for It's kinda hard to be facing north When you got a head full of things you can't afford Please, take my hand and hold them Please, take them away from me They do me far more harm than they ever could promise To protect me from the sea And I got a feeling This thought, it isn't so far out of the left side It's me verse the horseshoe The corkscrew, and the next guy A dream as American as missionary sex erector sets and apple pie And I swear I'll never, ever, ever make it out of this, this, this god-forsaken land And I swear I'll never, ever, ever make it out of this, this, this god-forsaken land And I swear I'll never, ever, ever make it out of this, this, this god-forsaken land Teenage girls and skinny bones Riding past my window Storm rolls in from Africa And rain falls on the shingles Teenage girls on skateboards Running from the rain Power cuts out on the neighborhood And I'm in the dark again