Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Multitude of Casualties' - She drove it like she stole it / She stole it fast and with a multitude of casualties / She said I shipped it out from Boulder / Packed in coffee grounds and wrapped around in dryer sheets / We spent a few months just wandering the Sonoma / High as hell and shivering and smashed / We were trying for a vision quest / We opened up three buttons / But all we saw was desert trash / It's a funny bit of chemistry / How a cool car makes a guy seem that much cooler / And it's worth noting throughout history / Kids come around the corner to a multitude of casualties / We spent a few hours circling the city / Like a hawk out on the highways / We were looking around for something that just died / We heard the deacon's hopeful eulogy / At least in dying you don't have to deal with / New Wave for a second time / And after your party we got off the grid / Oh we just couldn't get with all those clever kids / And now we forage on the frontage roads / We drive at nights / I guess it just feels somewhat safer / Yeah, we scrounge around for sustenance / We mostly eat it in the back half of the theaters / We spent a few years nodding off in matinees / We were high as hell and shivering and smashed / Yeah, we were hoping for an action adventure / Or something loud that we could feel through all the Feminax / And after the movie / We got off the ground / I got in your car / Crawled around in Lowertown / While she was at The Citadel / He was getting high as hell / When she came to in the matinee / She was asking 'round for someplace else to stay / While he was down in Lowertown / She was feeling out the 5:30 folk mass / And the night that she got born again / He was getting with her little hoodrat friend / They did 'Wade Into The Water' into 'One Tin Soldier' / She started to cry / Yeah, youth services always find a way / To get their bloody cross / Into your druggy little messed up teenage life