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bartenders eyes are full of pitty
as he tells her "you're alone and its 2:30
all the chairs are on the table and it's time to close!"
she said "a minute ago they were starin' at me where the hell did they go?"
and she went out to paint the town
roses are red violence is too
everyone knows i'm painting the town blue
"you look funny when you cry" were his last words:
before he laughed and said goodbye she flipped a finger
and so she picked her shoes up picked up her feet
& let'em walk hand in hand down the dirty hallway
then she went out to paint the town
roses are red violence is too
everyone knows i'm painting the town blue
was she beat did she suffer from a working hand?
she always hated his hacking cough early in the morning
she walked to the grayhound to take a little ride
he could look in the corner of every town but he won't find her
'cause she went out to paint the town
roses are red violence is too
everyone knows i'm painting the town blue
as he tells her "you're alone and its 2:30
all the chairs are on the table and it's time to close!"
she said "a minute ago they were starin' at me where the hell did they go?"
and she went out to paint the town
roses are red violence is too
everyone knows i'm painting the town blue
"you look funny when you cry" were his last words:
before he laughed and said goodbye she flipped a finger
and so she picked her shoes up picked up her feet
& let'em walk hand in hand down the dirty hallway
then she went out to paint the town
roses are red violence is too
everyone knows i'm painting the town blue
was she beat did she suffer from a working hand?
she always hated his hacking cough early in the morning
she walked to the grayhound to take a little ride
he could look in the corner of every town but he won't find her
'cause she went out to paint the town
roses are red violence is too
everyone knows i'm painting the town blue
Lyrics submitted by punker87, edited by Mellow_Harsher, thegitsfan
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I love the big booming sound of the guitar and the fast shuffling beat of the drum...but the Bukowski-esque lyrics are what make this song so great.
Now for the meaning...is it about one boozy girl with relationship problems? Or is each verse about a different girl? I think that it is about one girl that is trying to get out of her unhappy relationship/life.