Song challenge: No Children

Here's a song to listen to and admire: No Children, by the Mountain Goats from the album Tallahassee (track 7). A razor sharp character portrait, I believe this album is dedicated to all the tweakers out there ;-)

Lyrics:

I hope that our few remaining friends
give up on trying to save us

I hope we come off with a failsafe plot
to piss off the dumb few that forgave us

I hope the fences we mended
fall down beneath their own weight

and I hope we hang on past the last exit
I hope it's already too late

and I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here
someday burns down

and I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away
and I never come back to this town again

in my life
I hope I lie
and tell everyone you were a good wife

and I hope you die
I hope we both die

[break]

I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow
I hope it bleeds all day long

our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
we're pretty sure they're all wrong

I hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn't over

and I hope you blink before I do
yeah I hope I never get sober

and I hope when you think of me years down the line
you can't find one good thing to say

and I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
you'd stay the hell out of my way

I am drowning
there is no sign of land

you are coming down with me
hand in unlovable hand

and I hope you die
I hope we both die

-mountain goats, no children, tallahassee