Hyphy She ghost rode the whip into the White Castle out on West Fifth So I left town forever on some truly unchivalrous shit I'm no catch by any means but yeah it seems like she could have done better than him, than this, than cleaning up some famous physicist's piss What home health care nurse just goes and marries her patient who named his own style of thermal radiation and was later named in the files? Grade school trip to the cyclotron, in ripped and faded janitor blue Her father was mopping the hallway, oh, a vague silhouette of a clue Nine out of ten Survive a lightning strike alright but then Our ionized lives are never quite the same again No She walked like a song from the balmiest years of the Cold War But when the wall came down then no one cared about quarks anymore Just north of town in the Hoosier Hills, colliding bodies, writing our wills Charged up spirits are still spinning 'round, we can never stop taking the pills Storm clouds gather to sing, gunbarrel-gray and menacing She briefly appeared at the end of his film, I never amounted to anything I hear a sideshow near my window at the Oakland Airport Bay Breeze Inn Basslines steer out of tire smoke into an Indiana grin Nine out of ten Survive a lightning strike alright but then Our ionized lives are never quite the same again No