Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Milkcrate Mosh' - The gin was just like Gideon / The kings were just like Solomon / The bashes were like Babylon / The jester kept on jacking off / Nervous cough, nervous cough, nervous cough and now we're off / Went down on the Denver slums and she woke up in the Rocky Mountain dawn / Felt all freed up from the fears that you can never put your finger on / Finger on, finger on, finger on and now we're gone / We were smoking to the drinking songs off Talking Songs for Walking / Waving Marlboros like magic wands / Listen up closely to the lit tips of your cigarettes / Can't you hear the serpent hiss? / Saying 'sweet baby suck on this' / The white wine was the nectar / The oldies made me feel like Phil Spector / Is Charlemagne your main man or is he just your sad protector? / You know you look so good together / But sometimes i get a feeling that you're a little bit restless / It's a small scene already and it gets dirty on the fringes / You sucked through his defenses / She said I usually wouldn't do this / But I couldn't help but notice / You had that text across your t-shirt / It said 'what would Judas do?' / He had those punching rings / He smoked the Camel Filter Kings / We went back behind the building / He did a brisk little business / His party favors were party saviors / Otherwise we might have never made it / Went down in the Springfield slums and woke up in the Sugar Mountain pines / Only to find that what you put into your mouth always gets into your mind