Sundown, Detroit, ‘91, I sat out and counted time
Saw the clouds and the trees and sunshine all get segmented to hell by the power lines
I was stitch-lipped while there was way too much noise outside

Head down, block out, lock arms, learn what shame comes on about
School full of pricks, white skin makes me sick, can’t say a thing out loud
It’s not the static that you’re hearing, kid, just how you learn to tune it out

But who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you anyway?
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you anymore?

Are you slow? Are you dumb? Are you fucked in the head? Are you cruel as they come?
Cigarette on the ground, are you deaf to the sound, are you passing all that stuff down?
Dogs howling in my veins and I still hear ‘em if I come around

But who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you anyway?
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you now
Who needs you now, who needs you anymore?


Snow on the ground, we were hospital bound in Jenn’s sedan
Distance of years, vacant empire heirs, it doesn’t change where the sound began
Just hear the surgeons out, try to make some plan if you can and I can!


Every song a satellite to where we are
Wrapping arms around a bruised guitar
Every pulse a star
A tattoo just like a cross-shaped scar
Won’t get too far


Shudder soul strapped to an ICU bed
Tremolo through the floor instead
To loose each thread
To wait for this drop in time
When our nerve turns lead

It’s the grief that sets my hair falling out
My scattered boy scout doubt
My last blowout
And all the shit I keep seeing now
That I can’t tell the doctors about

Slow learner, but the future comes on steep
A code I can’t outthink
The clock’s clean sweep
Now we’re just two bodies passing away
Into waves of stone black sleep

A tattoo just like a cross-shaped scar
Every pulse a star


A tattoo just like a cross-shaped scar
Every…


…pulse a star
Every false alarm or daydream
Every sinking sound
Every loss of ground or sunbeam
Every heart attack
Every don’t look back, a warning
Every dealer’s choice
Every shaking voice still learning
Every pulse a star
Every stolen car or airbag
(Who’s that rattling after us?)
Every bought and sold
Every heart of gold or white flag
(Who’s that rattling after us?)
Every iron gate
Every birthday cake uneaten
(Who’s gonna come to Earth for me?)
Every scorpion
Every champion unbeaten
(Who’s gonna drain my memory?)
Every missing friend
Every bitter end
(Who’s gonna come to Earth for me?)
(Who’s gonna drain my memory?)
(Who’s that rattling after us?)
(Who’s that rattling after us?)