Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Cheyenne Sunrise' - When I left I wasn't thinking / That I wasn't coming home / But first Al Green / And then Barry White / Convinced me not to go / And I didn't come home for fighting / I came to bandage up my hand / And if you're gonna talk to me like that / Then I'll just go back out again / Wipe that chip right off your shoulder / We ain't getting any younger / Some things are getting bigger / Some things are falling off / Some things they seem much harder / Some other things stay soft / We're tipping over in the taprooms / We're shooting through the ceiling / We're dying in the bathrooms / And we're living / For that one sweet, fleeting feeling / I know my cough sounds awful / Some nights it hurts a bit to breathe / But I'm glad it's just my body / I do my business on the street / We ain't getting any younger / Tomorrow night we'll be that much older / Some kids are growing awkward / And some kids are going off / We're fingering the punch bowl / We're feeding from the trough / There's nothing quite like a Cheyenne sunrise / To make us has-beens feel too old / Onward Christian soldiers / We're gonna bash right through your borders / I bet your next party gets sketchy / I saw the new kids nodding off / Some things are getting bigger / Some things are falling off / Some things seem much harder / Some other things stay soft