He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
It's a junkie dream makes you so uptight
Yeah it's Halloween tonight and every night
Hear you scratch your skin
Your sandpaper throat
You're a symphony, man, with one fucking note
How they beat you up week after week
And when you grow up you're going to be a freak
Want a violent girl who's not scared of anything
Help me kill my time
'Cause I'll never be fine
Help me kill my time
You went down to look at old Dallas town
Where you must be sick just to hang around
Seen it on TV how to kill your man
Then like Gacy's scene a canvas in your hand
You better call your mom she's out looking for you
In the jail and the army and the hospital too
But those people there couldn't do anything for you
Help me kill my time
'Cause I'll never be fine
Help me kill my time
Help me kill my time
Help me kill my time
'Cause I'll never be fine
Help me kill my time
Yeah it's Halloween tonight and every night
Hear you scratch your skin
Your sandpaper throat
You're a symphony, man, with one fucking note
How they beat you up week after week
And when you grow up you're going to be a freak
Want a violent girl who's not scared of anything
Help me kill my time
'Cause I'll never be fine
Help me kill my time
You went down to look at old Dallas town
Where you must be sick just to hang around
Seen it on TV how to kill your man
Then like Gacy's scene a canvas in your hand
You better call your mom she's out looking for you
In the jail and the army and the hospital too
But those people there couldn't do anything for you
Help me kill my time
'Cause I'll never be fine
Help me kill my time
Help me kill my time
Help me kill my time
'Cause I'll never be fine
Help me kill my time
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Some Song Lyrics as written by Steven Paul Smith
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after reading anything and everything and seeing anything and everyone on him/with him out there i can say he did know somehow deep down inside his self-concious head that he had the talents of those he admired so much, or else he would have never went out and played shows and recorded so much music.. he was easily embarrassed. if he thought what he had to put out there was truly shit, he wouldnt have released anything.. i know he would never admit or accept his greatness but i think he had a clue. also, is it just me or is he saying 'CHARLIE beat you up week after week'?? at least thats what im hearing in the 'some (rock) song' version of this song.. he wrote this one when he was 26 and therefore probably still quite upset about the abuse he suffered as a child at the hand of that man.. theres also the references to Dallas where he grew up with his abuser and how sick it makes him feel just to be there now, and the 'call your mom' thing makes me feel like he probably ran away all the time or tried to escape this man and she probably went lookin for him at places like that, (and finally he just left to live with his dad) but those places couldnt help him anyway cause hes been too fucked up by the situation he experienced and it doesnt matter what anything or anyone tries to do to help him get over this experience cause he never will be fine... he also references Gacy 'the clown killer' in this song- Gacy, a seemingly normal nice man who happened to also be a kids clown at parties, who took to many teen boys and brutally killed them... this song is very clearly about adult abuse to children.. one of elliotts most obvious on the topic... also, when asked about his tatoo of texas he basically said something about how it wasnt cause he liked it there, in fact, just the opposite.. almost like it was there so he would never forget what he went through there and what he survived...