Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Hostile, Mass.' - A knockoff necktie / The way he wore it made it look more like a tourniquet / I looked deep in his eyes / I saw Lynn, Massachusetts / She hung a sleeveless dress up on a sleeved up lifestyle / Girl you gotta cover that / She saw him gushing blood from wide open wounds / And she decided that she loved him / They put the screws into Charlemagne / He had a detox dream he saw Christ in all his glory / Charlemagne didn't feel any pain / But he's bleeding from the holes in his story / He said, 'Hey my name is Corey' / 'I'm really into hardcore / People call me Hard Corey.' / Don't you hate these clever people / And all these clever people parties / In the park drinking Dark Bacardi / Thinking things are funny when they really ain't that funny / The kids on the corner they keep getting stung / The color of our teeth matches the color of our tongues / In the Back Bay Fens getting gentle / Up against the fence with some guy who looks like Mickey Mantle / Dirty minds keep coming through the mud / The color of their eyes matches the color of our blood / He had a painters cap / It said Panama Jack, it had the flaps on the back / That kept the sun off his neck / He woke up deep in Hostile, Massachusetts / Reaching out to try to touch the special effects / He had no shoes and no pants / And they dressed him in a shirt with a collar / And they called him Porky Pig / And the two of you went up to his room / Later on you wouldn't admit you did / Seeing lousy movies but only for the A/C / Skimpy little outfits and bad guys acting crazy / And that's how I know when you're lying / It looks just like overacting / The kids on the corner are cracking and caving in / Turning over and turning other kids in / I never want to make you feel uncomfortable / I hope I never did / They met as kids he was angry and angsty / Yeah, she was a damned good dancer / I'll be damned if they didn't disappear / Wandered out of mass one day and faded into the fog and love and faithless fear / Charlemagne in sweatpants and you and me in Hostile, Massachusetts