White Noise Maker - Don't They Shoot Horses Lyrics

When did I stop sleepwalking on the hotel ledge
Stitched the wound in my side
I removed the thorn from my godhead

When was the last time I woke up under the bed
There's a box spring and linen sheets
I'm pretty far from the primitive

Still getting used to these
Lemon scented incentives
Disregarded fact and figures

When you take the measure of man
Will I keep coming up short
Don't they shoot horses
When they can't run anymore

What do you do when it's all you've been good for

Don't you know everything eats everything out there
From the apple that ruined Paris
To the mirror that thinks you're the fairest
I hear electric lady razor's singing blades
Over a cold bowl of corn flakes
I'm just a feast for the corn snakes

Still getting used to this burnished metal fridge
How trivial the burning bridge

Clear the rats from the rose bush
Until there's nothing but thorns

Don't they shoot horses
When they can't run anymore

And you, with your blue swimming pool
And your wrap around porch
Don't they shoot horses
When they can't run anymore

Logic puzzles, masks and muzzles
Have another baker's dozen
There's a bun burning the oven
Two drunks still in love
Disregard the facts and figures
Down the drain with shadow pictures
Permanent ink, pull the trigger
Like I know what to do

You probably don't mean what you say
But I shiver the words
Don't they shoot horses
When they can't run anymore

So what, I cleaned out the stables
There's no good into the chores
Don't they shoot horses
When they can't run anymore

Don't they shoot horses
When they can't run anymore

What do you do when it's all you were good for