The Midwest Quiet - Exit Wounds lyrics

Spent the summer touring bible colleges And playing football with future marines Who would strangle their mothers with telephone wires And make their fists fly at the first sign of green Spent November trailing Scientologists And ringing doorbells with small town police Who would bury their brothers in hollowed-out tree trunks And then grind their bones into shiny j**elry When I came home, my table was set When I saw you, I tried to forget How long this life goes on for some like you Spent my winter hearing radio silence And reading letters from lonely naval plebes Who would ship off to battle Kuwaiti fires And send their stories to hometown dioceses When I came home, my table was set When I saw you, I tried to forget How long this life goes on for some like you