Choked Out - The Mountain Goats

Diamonds in the firmament

All reserves completely spent

Someone set up the oxygen tent

Everybody here's real proud to present

Choked out

Two hundred dollar take-all purse

Half-nelson to suplex reverse

Worried look on the face of the ringside nurse

At one for once with the universe

Choked out

Choked out choked out choked out

I stretch and strain with all my might

Drift off into the velvety arms of the night

Kick and claw and scratch and bite

Fire up the grill everybody eats tonight

Choked out

No brakes down

An endless dark incline

Most of the boys

Won't ever cross this line

If they all want to die dead broke that's fine that's fine

Everybody's got their limits

Nobody's found mine

Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase

All the colors of the rainbow flood my face

I lift right off into space

I can see the future it's a real dark place

Choked out choked out choked out

Choked out choked out choked out