Self-defense Lyrics - Paul Westerberg

Cheekbones and hormones, your only self-defense 

Lying through dinner and your rock and roll teeth again 

You've harbored a coward and fed him full of broth 

This nocturnal sadness, leave you pale as this tablecloth 

Careful, don't you spill your dinner 

That would be a good defense 

Then you wouldn't have to sit here 

On the fence 

Cheekbones and hormones, he's the accidental man 

Tell you in a stage whisper, about the boy who cried benefit 

As the poet drags the darkness within him to the light 

It's only in self-defense will they drag you out into the night 

Careful, don't you spill your dinner 

That would be your best defense 

Careful, what you go and wish for