Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Chill Out Tent' - There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts, / And the kids came from miles around to get messed up on the music. / And she drove down from Bowdoin with a carload of girlfriends, / To meet some boys and maybe eat some mushrooms / And they did and she got sick / And now she's pinned and way too shaky. / She don't wanna tell the doctor everything she's taken / The paramedics hovered over her like a somber mourning family / They gave her activated charcoal, they flooded her with saline / Her: / 'I got really hot and then I came to in the chillout tent, / They gave me oranges and cigarettes.' / He was rough around the edges: / He'd been to school, but never finished, / He'd been to jail, but never prison. / It was his first day off in forever, man / The festival seemed like a pretty good plan, / Cruise some chicks and get a sun-tan. / And his friend gave him four, but said only take one, / But then he got bored and ended up taking all four. / Ah, so now my man ain't that bored anyways, / The paramedics found him: he was shaking on the side of the stage. / Him: / 'Everything was spinning and I came to in the chillout tent, / They gave me oranges and cigarettes.' / Her: / 'I got really hot and then I came to in the chillout tent' / Both: / 'They gave us oranges and cigarettes.' / She looked just like a baby bird, all new and wet and trying to light a Parliament / He quoted her some poetry, he's Tennyson in denim and sheepskin. / He looked a lot like Izzy Stradlin. / They started kissing when the nurses took off their IVs, / It was kinda sexy, but it was kinda creepy. / Their mouths were fizzy with the cherry cola, / They had the privacy of bedsheets / And all the other kids were mostly in comas. / Her: / 'He was kinda cute, we kinda kicked it in the chillout tent, / And I never saw that boy again.' / Him: / 'She was pretty cool, we kinda kicked in the chillout tent, / And I never saw that girl again.' / Her: / 'He was kinda cute, we kinda kicked it in the chillout tent, / And I never saw that boy again.' / Him: / 'She seemed pretty cool, we kinda kicked it in the chillout tent, / And I never saw that girl again'