Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Don't Let Me Explode' - He said 'What about Los Angeles?' / She said 'We never really made it that far west' / Yeah, we scored big in Denver / And we thought it might be best / To go hang around / In the upper Midwest / Yeah, And he said 'What about New Orleans?' / She said 'I don't think you understand what that means' / And all those hangers-on / These girls lifting up their shirts when the cameras come on / Yeah, we were trying to stay away from those kind of scenes / Yeah, we didn't go to Dallas / Yeah, cause Jackie Onassis said / That it ain't safe for Catholics yet / Think about what they pulled on Kennedy / And then think about his security / Yeah, then think about what they might try to pull on you and me / Saint Barbara, I'm calling your name / Don't let me blow up / We'll hook it all up / I guess there's fields of speed where there's fields of grain / Saint Barbara, don't let me explode / I can feel the whole scene / Starting to corrode / When we're fooling around on the frontage roads / He asked what happened to Charlemagne / She just smiled all polite-like and said something vague / She said 'Charlemagne got caught up in some complicated things' / Yeah, then she wiped at her nose and she winked