Cover art for Multitude Of Casualties by The Hold Steady

Multitude Of Casualties

May. 3, 20051 viewer5.8K views

Multitude Of Casualties Lyrics

We spent a few years nodding off in matinees
We were high as hell and shivering and smashed
Yeah, we were hoping for an action adventure
Or something loud that we could feel through all the Feminax

And after the movie
We got off the ground
I got in your car
Crawled around in Lowertown

While she was at The Citadel
He was getting high as hell
When she came to in the matinee
She was asking 'round for someplace else to stay

While he was down in Lowertown
She was feeling out the 5:30 folk mass
And the night that she got born again
He was getting with her little hoodrat friend


They did "Wade Into The Water" into "One Tin Soldier"
She started to cry
Yeah, youth services always find a way
To get their bloody cross
Into your druggy little messed up teenage life

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