Clung to the sweater
From the day you were born
Never knew better, that's what you swore
Mother heard you 'cause the walls were thin
In saturnine sweetness and Rachel-thin

No boy could spell you out
In the grass at night
Beneath the stars you grew right
Past the streets where you were raised
Sneakin' out early to a secret place
Like a hole in the wall
Like a hole in the wall

Into the bed you hang your sleep
To watch your man as he seeks relief
You cut out his heart and watch him die
So we can know you, and that you're alive
As the hole in the wall
You are the hole in the wall

No one can know your song
In kisses and noise
Now you belong to them all

Awake to the dawn and scratch your eyes
Light the prayer candles that you remind
To send you a boy that you could waste
A little piece of heaven to set you straight
Through the hole in the wall
You are the hole in the wall

No one could tell you why
In tapes full of hiss
And signs that cry to the night
Of the dead and the wishing ghost
Beating on you to drain morose
Through the hole in the wall
We are the holes in the wall
We are the holes in the wall
We are the holes in the wall
We are the

Here's to the Atom Bomb   (normal version)

Away to the side you move your head
Gravity fingers dig in your bed
The strangest man won't let you breathe
Rocking on you in a movie scene
His words fill your mouth
His kiss bleeds sick
Devoid of touch he lets out
To the streets where you were raised
Sittin' home waiting for the coming age
You had to wait your turn
You had to wait your turn

Wake up early, wash up late
Satellites connect you to your hate
Your patience grows but your skin is thin
The pager signals they're coming in
Through the hole in the wall
You're like the hole in the wall
Here's to the atom bomb
May everyone find a way to get off

A little piece of heaven is all you seek
In the same old reruns week after week
Their faces make you want to kill
That little piece of heaven
Singin' on the windowsill
No lights can turn you on
Pixelate the night
Bleedin' the words of your eyes
On the streets where you were born
Sittin' home waiting for the coming dawn
Near the hole in the wall
You're like the hole in the wall

From the Friends & Enemies boot. Also released on the 2025 Machina reissue as "Here's to the Atom Bomb, Too".