Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Certain Songs' - Guess you're old enough to know / Kids out on the east coast / Roughly twenty years old / They got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio / Warm beer to the summer smoke / And the Meat Loaf to the Billy Joel / Certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls / She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car / She looks shallow, but she's neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars / She's pulling out her shirttails and she's jacking up her socks / Stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox / Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along / B-1 is for the good girls, and it's 'Only The Good Die Young' / C-9 is for the naked eyes, and it's 'Paradise By The Dashboard Light' / B-12 is for the speeders / And D4 is for the lovers / And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends / And they're playing it again / And Ellen Foley gives 'em hope / And certain songs, they get scratched into our souls / I guess you're old enough to know / Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes / Screwing in the surf and going out to shows / They get high and they ride around in GTOs / Certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls / Certain songs, they get so scratched into our souls