You're walking through the forests where they feed the trees broken glass   John Lennon and the Rolling Stones crooning in plastic bags   Spit shine your black luck now, baby   You turn on the radio, the speakers spit tangled talk   Everything is war and who's fucked their way to the top   But they'll eat black clouds, we all eat black clouds   You're working on a cruise serving caviar to the cruel   They repossessed your heart, you're making payments on your face, too   Spit shine your black clouds now, baby   And what if your religion turns out to be a cruel joke, and you're fucked beyond all hope?   Gonna spit shine your black clouds now, baby   First you stayed in bed all day and walked around all night   Then you threw your phone away and slept beneath the freeway underpass   Your mother slit her throat after your father's heart attack   And you've got two little sisters still in school   What'cha gonna do? What'cha gonna do?   Just sit and watch the ships loading their freight   And pale pelicans feeding their young and grasp at the barbarically charming sun   Out on the weekend talked your way out of a first date   Said your uncle was famous, by then it was too late   Spit shine your black luck now, baby   Fall asleep to the TV, the cops are talking tough   To the cameras in the backseat, to the audience at home   But they'll eat black clouds, we all eat black clouds   Once you knew a girl with skin like a sapphire sun   Took you back to her apartment, told you everything you did wrong   Spit shine your black luck   Spit shine your black luck   The sky's so desolate like flesh on a skull-shaped balloon   You sit in bed writing love letters to yourself   No black ink on the black paper, bay   Stare at the ceiling, fall into dreamless sleep   Day climbs your chimney, taps you on the shoulder blade   Spit shine your black clouds now, baby   All your best friends grow up to be successful actresses   All your bitter enemies died of liver failure in Kent, Washington trailers   All your brothers made babies until their brains turned brown   The world's lounging longways on an unbridled black cloud