Random Rules

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection
 Slowly screwing my way across Europe
 They had to make a correction
 Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer
 Plunge in the digital snake
 I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands
 When they make your hands shake
 I know you like to line dance
 Everything so democratic and cool
 But baby, there's no guidance when random rules
 I know that a lot of what I say
 Has been lifted off of men's room walls
 Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers
 And walked down all the wrong halls
 But nothing can change the fact
 That we used to share a bed
 And that's why it scared me so
 When you turned to me and said:
 "Yeah, you look like someone
 Yeah you look like someone who up and left me low
 Boy, you look like someone I used to know"
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 I know you'd like to line dance
 With everything so democratic and cool
 But baby, there's no guidance when random rules
 I asked the painter why the roads are colored black
 He said, "Steve, it's because people leave
 And no highway will bring them back"
 So if you don't want me, I promise not to linger
 But before I go I gotta ask you dear
 About that tan line on your ring finger
 No one should have two lives
 Now you know my middle names
 Are wrong and right
 Honey we've got two lives to give tonight
 To give tonight
 To give tonight