[Intro] x2 [Verse] There’s a smell here that stands my hairs on end Dog hair in the heater gas pumps and cedar And jacknives on the nine and seabirds choked on fishing line [Chorus] x2 [Verse] Clouds say hush but the chainsaws mush on to Custer and Columbia Salty tentacles shrink in the sun but the red tide is over The mollusks they have won [Chorus] x4 [Bridge] There’s a smell here of gravel and cigarettes lit When the match made them sweet When the engine turned over and beat up our street Oh that was the day To remember [Outro] I remember because of the fires that leapt From the caves of the things that have not happened yet When I think of it now they smell to me quite sinister   I want to go back and die at the drive in Die before strangers can say I hate the rain I hate the rain