Our Whole Lives Lyrics

Lyric discussion by sunflowerradio 

Cover art for Our Whole Lives lyrics by Hold Steady, The

I'm pretty sure some of these are wrong on the studio version. Great song, great lyrics, regardless.

should now be fixed up to match what's in the liner notes. some interesting changes from the live version i originally based this off: "sing sing singing the song we know" becomes "bang bang bang goes the quarter notes"; "kids are ripping in their sugar packets" (?) becomes "the townies taking off their tavern jackets"; "ring ring ring goes the telephone/tell my little lambs that i ain't coming home" sort of appears out of nowhere; and "now they're waving them around to treat some troubled hearts/ the band sounded stiff no one's even listening" sort of vanishes....