The Mendoza Line Settle Down, Zelda lyrics

In for a dime, out for a dollar
Back in for a dime again
I want to resign any pretense of valor
And find some way to give in

Well, she reels and she lurches
Through the burrow of churches
Where a man dare stand in her way
After all of the urges some virtue emerges
But finally you still gotta pay

Your mother is a widow
And your brother's at war
Your father drank himself
To death in 1994, oh so awful

You pulled him from the rubble
And you drew him up a bath
You went through all this trouble
Just to watch him break himself in half

He wanted to die where he was born
He'd already dug a hole in the ground
Before he left ya, he held ya, said
"Hey settle up Zelda
And then Zelda, settle down"

Well honey, I know that rings
And material things
Ain't exactly what ya had in mind
But you trembled and dissembled

Then you start to resemble
All those people that you left behind

Life isn't permanent, nobody cares
Tell me the time and place
And honey, I'll be there

Let your bitter heart shine
I don't wanna refine
You throw a blanket over a bird cage
But you're so busy running
That you run out of money
And your face is showing your age

And baby, it don't mean shit
To me that you got a history
God knows that we've both been around
Here's to the last boy that held ya
Hey now settle up Zelda
And then Zelda, settle down

Now the summer turns fall
And we live in this squalor
And our time is nearly upon us
You're in for a dime
Then you're in for a dollar
But that ain't all that its gonna cost

So maybe I just might be
The last person you see
Or maybe it'll be the other way around
Oh, I wish I could tell ya
Just to settle up Zelda
But you ain't gonna settle down