You're Breaking My Arms

from The Beginner's Guide To Birds ( 2 0 0 3 - 2 0 1 8 ) by Painkiller The Pigeon

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Recorded upstairs at Brotown, Chicago IL on January 4, 2007

Bass and final mix in Saint Paul MN on September 27, 2016

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Well, my baby picked me up on a Thursday night
I said "Whatever you want to do, I will not put up a fight"
Words I would live to regret, as it came to pass
Her backseat full of implements, the cigarette lighter flashed
With the slightest hint of evil, she said
"Let's have a blast"

Well, baby baby baby let me share with you a fact
It may come as some surprise, but I do not bend like that
I'm not gonna lie, my body's pumping with alarm
I said "Baby baby baby baby baby,
You're breaking my arms"
I said "You're breaking my arms"

Well, I came to on the table with the leather straps tight
My baby looking deadly in the full moonlight
There was some kind of contraption with a pulley and winch
Connected to my body, I said "Baby, what's all this?"
She said "Honey, this is my idea of what a Thursday night is"

Well, baby baby baby got me bent up like a bug
Taking photographs for friends so they can rank them on her blog
I'm trying not to pass out and I'm fighting to stay calm
Just that baby baby baby baby baby
I think you're breaking my arms
I think you're breaking my arms
You know you're breaking my arms
You're breaking my...guitar solo...

Well, please not the ether baby, please not the straps
Put down the blowtorch, take that coffee maker back
I don't know what you want from me, some kinda confession?
I don't know what's in store for me, the worst I'm guessing?

Now it's Friday morning and I'm crawling into work
Well, I woke up dumped off in my front lawn
I could barely change my shirt
Jake, you know, from sales? says "Man, you look like hell"
I said "Looks are nothing, Jake, you should have heard me yell"
He just whistled and grinned and said "Can I have her cel?"
No, you do not want it, Jake!

Oh baby, now the pictures they are pumping in my eyes
Every time I close them as I'm putting back my files
The mental scars may linger, that's not the worst part
It's that baby baby baby baby baby I think you broke my arms
You know you broke my arms
You broke my arms
That was you that broke my arms
Yeah, you broke my arms

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from The Beginner's Guide To Birds ( 2 0 0 3 - 2 0 1 8 ), released December 4, 2020

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