Stabbed to Death Outside San Juan

Lyrics

The winter's wet, and the summer's hot[1]
Take a match in Puerto Rico, why not
Power and adrenaline flowing like amber
From the recesses of the earth, put on your waders
And twitch when the water runs high sometimes
Twitch when the tide ebbs low

See the sights, maybe go downtown
Sometimes you get some heat, sometimes it follows you around

When the blade hits the bone, everybody hears it sing
Shower room full of people, no one hears a goddamned thing
A twitch when the current runs wild sometimes
Twitch when the contact howls

All that racket out there in the arena
I’m on a stretcher, here come the cleaners
And the sky goes dark and there I am
Climbing down the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
I drop from the top of my tall steel cage
Drop to the concrete floor

Banter

This is a song about King Kong Brody. (2015-04-02 - Mercy Lounge, Nashville)
This is a song about how you can be just going about the business of daily life, and get stabbed to death outside San Juan. It's called...Stabbed to Death Outside San Juan. (2015-04-09 - Webster Hall, New York City)
This seems like a crowd that wants to hear songs about wrestling. And wrestlers. And the bloody deaths of wrestlers in faraway places. This is about the time that Bruiser Brody got stabbed to death outside San Juan. It's called 'Stabbed to Death Outside San Juan.' (2015-04-11 - City Winery, New York City)

Live Performances

Footnotes

1. "the winter's cold, but out there it's hot" (2015-04-16), "the winter's wet, the rain is hot" (2015-04-23), "the winter's warm, the weather's hot" (2015-06-01)