Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Family Farm' - St. Catherine's was a nightmare / You know they took away my headphones / Sure they let you keep your handset / But the courtyard is a dead zone / And the nurse that they assigned me / Had 'Eruption' as her ring tone / Blasting out through built-in speakers like it's bug spray / Buzzing like a hornet halfway blown / If you're still in Pennsylvania / I'd advise you not to leave / Take some nickels from the fountain / Make your friends and fall asleep / Let your sins be of omission / I wish you wouldn't engage with all these creeps / 'Cause they're never going to love you that one specific way / That you want them all to love you / (The way you want them to love you) / (The way you want them to love you) / With a flexible schedule and a willingness to trade your medications / (The way you want them to love you) / Obsessive and controlling and coming up on total suffocation / She came into the cantina singing 'This Must Be The Place' / Said faithful has its limits I just want to see his face / Before she took her shot she said a little grace / Said Lord grant me the power to stop these hands from shaking / I'd been falling in the fountain since a week or so before / I'd been rattled by the accident, my shoulders were still sore / I almost rolled my eyes when they asked me how to score / But sometimes it feels sweet to be the teacher / When she was combing through the carpet I could not resist her charms / She brought me to a fortress, she called the family farm / And out along the towers there were guards with heavy arms / I guess there was some tension with the neighbors / Tripping at the airstrip, drinking on the runway / Laughing at the jets as we watched them fly away / She said you get what you get when you push too far ahead / They put us in these places for a reason / (The way you want them to love you) / (The way you want them to love you) / Shaking your head with resignation masquerading as wisdom / (The way you want them to love you) / Leaning on the lamp post just jangling the keys to the kingdom / (The way you want them to love you) / Listing in the lobby of a hotel on the highway / Not sure you even want to be rescued / (The way you want them to love you) / 'Cause they're never going to love you that one specific way / That you want them all to love you / (The way you want them to love you) / And you want them all to love you