When Walter Went Crazy Lyrics - English Oceans - Drive By Truckers

When Walter went crazy 

She was sitting on the couch 

Painting her toenails 

And drinking a tab 

He walked out of the bedroom with a cigarette in his mouth 

And he poured gasoline in a circle all around the house 

When Walter went crazy 

He had rattlesnake in his eyes 

Blended whisky in his veins and murder in his heart 

She watched him walk out the door and knew he was gone 

Matlock on the TV and her mama on the phone 

When Walter went crazy, they say he just snapped 

It had gone on for so long and she wasn't coming back 

She hadn't been off the couch in at least a dozen years 

Deafened by the silence and the grinding of the gears 

His friends could see it coming like yellow piss on snow 

Like a house fire in the distance, like a car crash in slow mo 

Their friends could see it coming but what could someone do 

When it's speeding down the runway and 

The brake line's cut in two 

When Walter went crazy 

The house went up in flames 

You could see his hands shaking 

From the bourbon and the shame 

He never planned the ending 

He just rolled the credit names 

When the lights came up we all went home 

But never quite the same 

When the lights came up we all went home 

But never quite the same 

When the lights came up we all went home 

But never quite the same