michigan boys take ages to grow they grow outta season in fucked-up rows in
the garbage-filled canyon in back of my building I plant seeds of michigan
boys Because I work all during the day I don't have time to fucking play
can you think in the dark can you think in the light can you think in the
air when it's factory white In the factory town where I come from you
breathe in slag and chewing-gum and the game of chance you get to play is
will you get taken or blown away put together a car and go for a ride cause
michigan boys are on your side, michigan boys are on your side Men change
their fucking clothes women close their closet hearts but nothing changes a
single mind across the street a fire starts a dollar apiece for people's
souls they come in steel but not in gold and a single climbs the disco
chart the cars are coming part by part the coils arrive the taping starts
it starts at zero and does not stop and comes out sounding like iggy pop so
what you know is what you feel and michigan boys live reel to reel, and
michigan boys live reel to reel Henry says the michigan boys are really
cool are really cool and he's been where they used to go and he knows
things that I don't know and eno's piece and eno's noise never got to
michigan boys, they don't bother they don't sleep one of these days we play
for keeps we keep the beat and give it away so nothing is missing and
nothing is lost and michigan boys don't owe no cause and michigan boys
don't owe no cause no cause no cause to lose no grooves to cross no rules
to follow no sharks to kill just shots to call to call to us who call aloud
to cross to cross to lose the cause to lose the cause to lose the cause to
lose the cause that closes you in and covers your head while there you lie
in a bullet-hole road an no cause why
And Henry says the michigan boys are really good are really good
and I don't think that he means nice cause Henry talks in a michigan voice
in a michigan voice all speed and pills and michigan boys they can't sit
still and michigan boys they can't sit still and michigan boys they can't
sit still and michigan boys they can't sit can't sit can't sit can't sit
can't sit- Emily XYZ, 1982 or 1983
For Henry Ferree
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