Spit Shine Your Black Clouds

Lyrics

[Verse 1] You're walking through the forests Where they feed the trees broken glass John Lennon and the Rolling Stones crooning in plastic bags [Refrain] Spit shine your black luck now, baby [Verse 2] You turn on the radio The speakers spit tangled talk Oh, everything is war And who's fucked their way to the top [Refrain] But they'll eat black clouds, we'll all eat black clouds [Verse 3] You're working on a cruise now Serving caviar to the cruel Oh, they repossessed your heart You're making payments on your face too [Refrain] Spit shine your black clouds now, baby [Verse 4] And what if your religion turns out to be a cruel joke And you're fucked beyond all hope? [Refrain] Spit shine your black clouds now, baby [Bridge] First, you stayed in bed all day and walked around all night Then you threw your phone away and slept beneath the freeway underpass Oh, your mother slit her throat after your father's heart attack And you've got two little sisters still in school What'cha gonna do? Oh, what'cha gonna do? Just sit and watch the ships loading their freight And the pale pelicans feeding their young And just grasp at the barbarically charming sun [Verse 5] Out on the weekend Talked your way out of a first date Said your uncle was famous By then it was too late [Refrain] Spit shine your black luck now, baby [Verse 6] Fall asleep to the TV The cops are talking tough To the cameras in the backseat To the audience at home [Refrain] But they'll eat black clouds, we'll all eat black clouds [Verse 7] Once you knew a girl With skin like a sapphire sun Took you back to her apartment Told you everything you did wrong [Chorus] Spit shine your black luck Spit shine your black luck Spit shine your black luck Spit shine your black luck Spit shine your black luck, yeah Spit shine your black luck [Verse 8] The sky's so desolate Like flesh on a skull-shaped balloon You sit in bed Writing love letters to yourself [Refrain] No black ink on the black paper, baby [Verse 9] Stare at the ceiling Fall into dreamless sleep Day climbs your chimney Taps you on the shoulder blade [Refrain] Spit shine your black clouds now, baby [Outro] All your best friends grow up to be successful actresses And all your bitter enemies died of liver failure in Kent, Washington trailers All your brothers made babies until their brains turned brown Oh yeah, the world's lounging longways on an unbridled black cloud Oh yeah, the world's lounging longways on an unbridled black cloud Oh yeah, the world's lounging longways on an unbridled black cloud