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Bloody sheets
Tenderly she moves me
An opera star
Dying hard for love
You say I'm hurt
I will take your word
Leather pants
Happiness
A hundred dollars
Buy success
Hanging with your fashionable whores
And I'm a wounded bird
I will take your word
You and Tom (you and Tom)
To the prom (to the prom)
Camel dick (camel dick)
Crucifix (crucifix)
Everyone's the same and on and on
Emerging from the football stands
Clinging to his broken hand
It's over, I have seen it all before
Nakedness (nakedness)
A flying lesson (flying lesson)
Tattered dress (tattered dress)
Sunburned chest (sunburned chest)
You will pay for your excessive charm
With a boy who knows
Less than he thinks
Drinks up his expensive drinks
Be careful with the details of the war
Tenderly she moves me
An opera star
Dying hard for love
You say I'm hurt
I will take your word
Leather pants
Happiness
A hundred dollars
Buy success
Hanging with your fashionable whores
And I'm a wounded bird
I will take your word
You and Tom (you and Tom)
To the prom (to the prom)
Camel dick (camel dick)
Crucifix (crucifix)
Everyone's the same and on and on
Emerging from the football stands
Clinging to his broken hand
It's over, I have seen it all before
Nakedness (nakedness)
A flying lesson (flying lesson)
Tattered dress (tattered dress)
Sunburned chest (sunburned chest)
You will pay for your excessive charm
With a boy who knows
Less than he thinks
Drinks up his expensive drinks
Be careful with the details of the war
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I'm pretty sure the end of the song wraps it all up.
Ounsworth is telling about an opera star dying for love. She hangs out with her leather-panted friends, spending their money looking for happiness.
Then he goes back to when she was in high school and hanging out with all the wrong people: the football star.
He then says that the opera star will eventually pay for her good looks with someone who isn't as smart/successful/important as he believes himself to be.
When he says, "Be careful with the details of the war," he's advising the person writing the story about the opera star to truly find out what went wrong in this girl's life to get her in the position she is in now.