Girls Like Status - The Hold Steady

He’s drawn out in the dark, up in Penetration Park

He says he’s got your medication

And she was sitting on the edges of his vision

Trying to start a revolution

But he’s done with all the parties

He’s covered in contusions

Your life leaves life lines

Your rug leaves bright bruises

She said she was cruising

But she came back, all proud and out of focus

With a cool car

Drank and broke us

Guys go for looks, girls go for status

There are so many nights

When this is just how it happens

Guys go for looks, girls go for status

He was dreadlocked in the dorms, in the Colorado corn

He says he’s got your vegetation

And she was sitting on the edge of the bed

Smoking, trying to reach emancipation

And he’s done with DVDs, he’s fully entertained

He’s bleaching out the blood stains, he’s got diamonds in the drain

She said that she was coming but she wasn’t

Just made hard fast noises, it kinda sounded like the locusts

Guys go for looks, girls go for status

There are so many nights

When this is just how it happens

Guys go for looks, girls go for status

It was song number three on John’s last CD

Gonna make it through this year if it kills me

And it almost killed me

Well, song number four on that

You want the scars but you don’t want the war

That’s just hardcore, these kids are clever to the core