Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Same Kooks' - They found me in a florist, I was fried and out of focus / I was kicking it with chemists / The scratches on my back, they formed into a choir / And belted out a chorus / There were clicks and hisses and complicated kisses / Gideon's got a pipe made from a Pringles can / Hey hey, Providence / You gotta fall in love with whoever you can / The sheets stain but the sins wash away / Naked bodies in the Narragansett Bay / Same kooks don't shoot but they sure do sniff / Same kooks can't fly because their wings are clipped / Same kooks can't come but they sure do kiss / Making love to the girls with the wrapped up wrists / The lord takes away and the lord delivers / Washed it all off in the Mississippi River / We slept it off in the matinees / We rip it up like the razor blades / Now we just need something to celebrate / I wanna open some bottles up / I'm getting tired / Of all these Styrofoam coffee cups / She said it's hard to feel holy when you can't get clean / Now she's bumping up against the washing machines / She said it's hard to slow down when you're picking up speed / It was those two same kooks from that one stupid photo shoot / It was those two same kooks from that one stupid photo shoot