On The Road
Watchmen Lyrics

Where Fingerhut trucks & granite stones mark the road like grave markers in the snow
The road is filled with trucks and stones that look like grave markers.

Monks make honey out of young boys' cheeks and religion is a hockey puck in your beak
The religious take advantage of young children and use their innocence like honey.

There is hot death on a cold, cold road and life is a wire act in the breeze
The road may be cold, but there is danger everywhere and life is delicate.

The police all wired on radio and scoundrels the only ones they believe
The only people the police believe are the ones who are using radios to communicate.

Panties were prizes and football a disease
People are rewarded with underwear and the popular sport is considered a plague.

Slip out the window of your parent's house tonight
Leave your home undetected.

We'll be sweet as molasses if only they will ask us How old we plan to be when we die
We will be polite if only they ask us our plans for the future.

Where greasy fists and burning books are the only way to heaven they know
The only way to be accepted into heaven is through violence and desecration of literature.

We played roulette in a sewer pipe to hide our broken arms from the cold
We gamble in an underground place to hide our injuries from the cold.

Stealing grocery carts to cook our meat, jumping from windows with casts on our feet
We're so desperate, we have to steal carts to cook food, and even jump out of windows with casts on.

There are coming for us, this I know, crash that car & chew on that mold
They are coming for us, so let's destroy our car and eat poison.

There's a tractor committing suicide and a German wife too fat to die
A tractor is being destroyed, and the overweight German woman is unable to die.

Better that paint church and shovel that drive, they killed that child with American pride
It's more important to do responsible things like paint a church and shovel a driveway, rather than being too prideful about American nationalism - which has led to the death of a child.

Park your truck on the railroad tracks and eat a bottle of sleeping pills
Park your vehicle on the train tracks and consume a lethal dose of sleeping medication.

Never use your knees on frigid nights or swim in the Mississippi swill
Avoid using your knees when it's cold outside or swimming in the contaminated Mississippi river.