Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Your Little Hoodrat Friend' - Your little hoodrat friend makes me sick / But after I get sick I just get sad / Cause it burns being broke / Hurts to be heartbroken / And always being both must be a drag / She's been calling me again / She's been calling me again / Your little hoodrat friend's been calling me again / And I can't stand all the things that she sticks into her skin / Like sharpened ballpoint pens and steel guitar strings / She says it hurts, but it's worth it / Tiny little text etched into her neck / It said 'Jesus lived and died for all your sins' / She's got blue black ink and it's scratched into her lower back / Says 'Damn right, I'll rise again' / Yeah, damn right, she'll rise again / Damn right, she'll rise again / And I've been dusted in the dark up in Penetration Park / And I've been plastered / I've been shaking hard and searching in a dirty storefront church / And I've been plowed / But I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend / I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend / I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend / What makes you think I'm getting with your little hoodrat friend? / Your little hoodrat friend got me high though / We were 17 and stuck up up in Osseo / She said it's funny how true love / Gets troubled by still water / And washed up in the Mississippi River / Her claddagh ring was pointed at the people / She said St. Theresa came to me in dreams / She said, 'I ain't gonna do anything sexual with you' / I'm kinda saving myself for the scene / She said city center used to be the center of our scene / Now city center's over / No one really goes there / Back then we used to drink beneath this railroad bridge / Some nights the bus wouldn't even stop / There were just too many kids / I was waiting for my ride and I got jumped from behind / And I got punctured / I got stopped by the cops and they found it in my socks / And I got probed