The Mendoza Line - Settle Down, Zelda lyrics

In for a dime, out for a dollar Back in for a dime again I want to resign any pretense of valor And find some way to give in Well she reels and she lurches through the burrow of churches Where a man dare stand in her way After all of the urges some virtue emerges but finally you still gotta pay Your mother is a widow and your brothers' at war Your father drank himself to d**h in 1994, oh so awful You pulled him from the rubble and you drew him up a bath You went through all this trouble just to watch him break himself in half He wanted to die where he was born he'd already dug a hole in the ground Before he left ya he held ya said "hey settle up zelda and then zelda settle down" Well honey i know that rings and material things ain't exactly what ya had in mind But you trembled and dissembled then you start to resemble all those people that you left behind Life isnt permanant, nobody cares Tell me the time and place and honey i'll be there Let your bitter heart shine, i don't wanna refine You throw a blanket over a bird cage But you're so busy running that you run out of money and your face is showing your age And baby it don't mean sh** to me that you got a history God knows that we've both been around Here's to the last boy that held ya Hey now settle up zelda, and then zelda, settle down Now the summer turns fall and we live in this squalor and our time is nearly upon us You're in for a dime then you're in for a dollar but that ain't all that its gonna cost So maybe i just might be the last person you see Or maybe it'll be the other way around Oh i wish i could tell ya just to settle up zelda, but you ain't gonna settle down