Unpleasant Breakfast The Hold Steady

Every morning we burn the bread
Walk it down to the water's edge
See the seagulls eat cigarettes
Check your breath in a spoon
All your stuff in the storage shed
Twisted sheets on the trundle bed
And the anti-psychosis meds
Made you feel all marooned

Last summer at the shore when I was working cleaning carpets
At some hotel that was haunted by some sailor who supposedly was murdered
After losing all his treasure in the harbor
That's back when I found romance in these ghosts

I was honestly more bothered
By the hundred miles of hallways
Than the clanking of the shackles
Or the shadows in the doorway
And we snuck into the ballroom
And made echoes in its empty
And I grabbed you and I spun you
And we both just started laughing

All the burns on the windowsill
Says she's crazy 'bout horses still
All these anti-psychosis pills
So much power and grace
Up there on South Ocean View
All the shells made me think of you
We bought into a three for two
And a strawberry shake