performed by: Why?
written by: Yoni Wolf, Josiah Wolf, Matt Meldon, Doug McDiarmid
appears on: Rubber Traits EP
source: from liner notes

The best chance to pick fights
is in the midwest
with your mouth fat
on your own words
in the parking lots
of the worst clubs
with fresh laid asphalt
and fluorescent lights that flicker

While the boys drink courage
and the girls show their navels + toes,
you don't need no curses,
no squinched up nose
or turned up top lip,
no cut throat kicking
kids' sandcastles,
spit, and "fuck you." talk.

You need only to arrive
at your own show in
glasses and open-toe sandals
and step out the van all
weak with a tour-worn voice
when you try to speak.

And your mouth fat
and your own words
but you can't be heard
over the noise of the opening act,
some whack rapper coming off CD.
Could've been me
back before we
practiced for the MUSH tour.

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