Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Cattle and the Creeping Things' - They got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things / Said 'I'm pretty sure we've heard this one before' / 'And don't it all end up in some revelation / With four guys on horses and violent red visions / Famine and death and pestilence and war?' / 'Pretty sure I heard this one before' / Well, you in the corner with a good looking drifter / Two cups of coffee and ten packs of sugar / I heard Gideon saw you in Denver, he said you're contagious / Silly rabbit, tripping is for teenagers / Murder is for murderers and hard drugs are for bartenders / I think I might have mentioned that before / He's got the pages in his pockets / That he ripped out of the Bible from his bedstand in the motel / He likes the part where the traders get chased out from the temple / I guess I heard about original sin / I heard the dude blamed the chick / I heard the chick blamed the snake / And I heard they were naked when they got busted / And I heard things ain't been the same since / You on the streets with a tendency to preach to the choir / Wired for sound and down with whatever / I heard Gideon did you in Denver / She's got a cross around her neck that she ripped off from a schoolgirl in the subway on a visit to the city / She likes how it looks on her chest with three open buttons / She likes the part where one brother kills the other / She has to wonder if the world ever will recover / Cause, Cain and Abel seem to still be causing trouble / She said I was seeing double for three straight days / After I got born again / It felt strange but it was nice and peaceful / And it really pleased me to be around so many people / Of course, half of them were visions / Half of them were friends from going through the program with me / Later on we did some sexy things / Took a couple photographs and carved them into wood reliefs / But that's enough about me / Come on, tell me how you got down here into Ybor City / He said I got to the part about the exodus / And up to then I only knew it was a movement of the people / But if small town cops are like swarms of flies / And blackened foil is like boils and hail / I'm pretty sure I've been through this before / It seemed like a simple place to score / And it seemed like a simple place to score / It seemed like a simple place to score / And then some old lady came to the door / And said 'Mackenzie Phillips doesn't live here anymore' /