Reprobates Resume - Les Savy Fav

Blessed be the doctor

Blessed be the nurse.

Blessed be the coachman

Who put me in the hearse.

Blessed be the blessings and

Blessed be the curse.

Rattled from the sediment

Old bones around the settlement.

Tell who passed out the medicine

The dose was much too strong.

He goes to bed bereft and berated

And rests his head in the hands of

The over rated.

Sweating bullets in the faculty lounge,

Sensing treason they’re not waiting around;

On the first bus out of the town

They’re playing movies that they’ve already seen.

The jewelry advances as the gums recede,

The devil goes out dancing on the angels preceived needs,

Please go easy on me.

Cheap sex with a dicount broker-

Cop’s walkie-talkie squawks breaker-breaker.

«We got to take her down to the station

She says that that broker broke her off.»

Read the text at the ticker tape parade-

The subtext is that someone’s getting paid off.

Check the checks at the ticker tape parade-

Pay stubs of the people who’ve been laid off.

Insurance can’t cover what the world exposed-

Open nerves.

Touching toes to stretch,

The A.C. made us retch.

Can you conceive of

Working for the

Emperor’s new clothes?

Please go easy on me.