Have To Explode

[Album: Tallahassee]



Tile floor of the bathroom

scrubbed clean and bright

checkerboard white and gray



Towels from the Ritz Carlton hotel

in Kingston, Jamaica

I can still see the rust colored stains today

The stage is set

Someone's gonna do something

someone else will regret

I speak in smoke signals

and you answer in code

The fuse will have to run out sometime

Something here will eventually have to explode

have to explode



You and me lying on the tile floor

trying to keep cool

restless all night

sweating out the poison

as the temperature climbs

Staring up, up

at the hundred watt light that burns above

Name one thing about us two

anyone could love

We rolled out the red carpet

when rotten luck rolls down the road

Five, four, three, two, one

watch for the flash

something here will eventually have to explode

have to explode