When he's holding then the streetlights seem an awful lot like spotlites sometimes charlemagne gets uptight running numbers between bars running girls between the cars and sometimes charlemagne feels all right all right
Charlemagne had eyes like a lover but last winter there was weather and his eyes they iced right over cassanova's in the corner and he's asking for a dance speedshooters driving round and coming down and tryna hook up with an exit ramp
Tramps like us and we like tramps charlemagne's got something in his sweatpants

Holly was supposed to be at ccd but she was down on shady streets she was looking round for something she could take up to a party and it's not like she's enslaved it's more like she's enthralled she don't need it but she likes it so she always makes that call first it makes her feel tall then it makes her feel small and it's all a sweet fleeting feeling they did the "been caught stealing" into "dancing on the ceiling" and you're damn right we danced charlemagne's got something in his sweatpants

Do you want me to tell it like boy meets girl and the rest is history? or do you want it like a murder mystery? i'm gonna tell it like a comeback story
'cause we when we left we were defeated and depressed and when we arrived we were ripping high we had a gun in the glovebox we had some sweet stuff tucked into our socks we had jesus christ in all his glory