The smoke tastes like gray lead   It's killing her head   She finally let him have it   Here practice yelling at yourself instead   She nearly burned the town again   With the look that she gave him   She covers her heart with her hands and says   A little useless praying never hurts anything   It's like nothing's got a pulse (x2)   In this whole damn place   Right down to the clocks   Nothing's got a pulse   Remember darling how quiet it got   Leave her alone, let her go home (x2)   So she don't have to see you   How pathetic you can be   So she won't hate herself to death   Know what i mean   She's covering he heart with her hands and says   A little useless praying never hurts anything   That must be her up there   Perfume and cigarette smoke in her wild hair   She smells a little like a train   Hauling lilacs through the rain   I can't tell that she's crying   I'll pretend again   But she sees them total destruction   As she goes running to them   I'm finally showing her the switch   How i learned to hold it   In my teeth   How she's got to keep   One razor sharp bloody piece   Of her old broken heart   How she's got to use that edge to carve   Across her new heart   Something deep enough to hurt   So it always reminds her   Deep enough to last   Darlin' honey, watch your ass