"Impenetrable" lyrics - GRAHAM PARKER

I'm in a trailer with some white trash.
They're drinkin' beer and smokin' grass
There's a dumb chick with peroxide hair.
She's got Axl Rose tattooed on her ass
They're holding me up like a trophy in a hall
Like a deer skin or a bear's head they bought from the mall
I act like I'm with them but I'm behind a wall
Behind a wall in the darkness

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Impenetrable
I can't get inside of it no
Impenetrable
I ca - ah - ah - ah - an't
Impenetrable

I wake up in a foreign bed.
The hotel is empty the porters are dead
The maids are diseased but the manager said:
I'll buy you a drink in the bar pal
Because you're our last customer. You're our last hope
The city's deserted, the Government's broke
I act like I'm with him but I'm ready to bolt
Out through the door into the darkness

[Chorus]

Out in the darkness the New Year's crowd howl
It's the same celebration for 20 years now
I found myself there once alone in a crowd
And the rules haven't changed for a minute
They're hoisting an effigy up on a pole
It's someone I remember, it's someone I know
I can't place the face but when the gasoline flows
I feel the flames lick round my ankles

[Chorus]