Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Separate Vacations' - Surrounded in a car park in Hostile, Massachusetts / Waiting on your savior, listening to music / All this gun talk is making me itchy / These guys with no shirts are making me sweat it / It's been getting kind of hectic / You're hot and you're scared that there's not enough air / So faithful and pure that you're not even there / You're hot and you're scared that there's not enough air / This is the cross that we carry / Met some blue blood dude / Down at the harbor / He called me his brother / He tried to sell me his daughter / These east coast kids are such tricky talkers / Got conned by a cop up in Boston Common / Oh the lipstick, oh the mascara / We're dried up like blood / And we're stuck to the ground / That's how we know / We'll be sticking around / We're tied up like kites / But we drift into trouble / There will be nights when we suffer / Such is our struggle / Via Dolorosa / It started with mimosas / It ended with relations / Mr. Minnesota / Stuck her between stations / Walked her through the passion / Went back to his cabin / You're hot and you're scared that there's not enough air / So faithful and pure that you're not even there / You're hot and you're scared that there's not enough air / So faithful and pure that you're not even there / You're hot and you're fried and there's not enough light / Your friends think you settled, you're scared that they're right / You're hot and you're fried and there's not enough light / Your friends think you're settled / Now you're taking separate vacations / Now you're taking separate vacations / Now you're taking separate vacations