Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Barfruit Blues' - Kids with broken hearts, kids with broken bones. / Kids with kidney stones giving birth to bloody stereos. / Systems are all dripping wet with gristle piss and swizzle sticks. / Mary's got a bloody nose from sniffing margarita mix. / She licked her lower lip and then she kissed that Hallelujah chick. / She came off kind of spicy but she tasted like those pickle chips. / We thought she was a dancer but her steps they made the records skip. / She came off kind of crunchy but she went down like a chicken strip. / Dripping wet with the special sauce, she had a confidence smile and a nervous cough. / We got off. / She said it's good to see you back in a bar band, baby. / I said it's great to see you're still in the bars. / Went down on the tallboy cans and he woke up in a cargo van. / Went down with the girls gone wild and he woke up with the middle man. / Went down with like fourteen bucks and woke up with like sixteen grand. / Went down with some crust punk junk and woke up with a straight edge band. / That's not how he planned it. / Holly can't speak. she don't feel all that sweet. / About the places that she sometimes has to go to get some sleep. / She said I'm sorry people think I'm pretty. These clever kids are killing me. / For one they ain't that clever. / Number two, it really sucks when you get stuck here with these Trevors. / This was supposed to be a party. / Half the crowd is calling out for Born to Run and the other half is calling out for Born to Lose. / Baby we were born to choose. / We got the last call bar band really, really, really big decision blues. / We were born to bruise.