Lights Go Out

“Jimmy! Jimmy, tell me ! Where have you been?
We had a date! It’s four AM and you’re five hours late again ...and again and again and again.”
Jimmy said he had a feeling tonight
He couldn’t go to sleep.It was getting light
He drank coffee and he got a buzz
So he drank himself a fifth with a friend
And when the lights went out
Jimmy said “It’s going to be the same as yesterday.”
When the lights go out it’s going be the same
When the lights go out, everybody say hey-hey
Simi Valley? Where the hell is that?
When I woke up, I swore I’d quit
“No more! No more!
I swore. I swore . I swore. I swore.”
She slept with the door unlocked when he left her
She thought the might come back
“Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back.”
Even though she knew him better than that
And she was better off,she did it anyway
She’d wake up and hear his voice decay
Into police sirens far away