in for a dime, out for a dollar   back in for a dime again   i want to resign any pretense of valor   and find some way to give in   well she reels and she lurches through the burrow of churches   where a man dare stand in her way   after all of the urges some virtue emerges but finally you still gotta pay      your mother is a widow and your brothers' at war   your father drank himself to death in 1994, oh so awful   you pulled him from the rubble and you drew him up a bath   you went through all this trouble just to watch him break himself in half   he wanted to die where he was born he'd already dug a hole in the ground   before he left ya he held ya said "hey settle up zelda and then zelda settle down"      well honey i know that rings and material things ain't exactly what ya had in mind   but you trembled and dissembled then you start to resemble all those people that you left behind   life isnt permanant, nobody cares   tell me the time and place and honey i'll be there      let your bitter heart shine, i don't wanna refine   you throw a blanket over a bird cage   but you're so busy running that you run out of money and your face is showing your age   and baby it don't mean shit to me that you got a history   god knows that we've both been around   here's to the last boy that held ya   hey now settle up zelda, and then zelda, settle down      now the summer turns fall and we live in this squalor and our time is nearly upon us   you're in for a dime then you're in for a dollar but that ain't all that its gonna cost   so maybe i just might be the last person you see   or maybe it'll be the other way around   oh i wish i could tell ya just to settle up zelda, but you ain't gonna settle down