This song is about billboards. And it's also about the tension between artifice and substance.
Lyrics
Sign on a bus, board on the road
It hits me in the face of wherever I go
That's what they want, a hazard in lace
I think to myself it's just a pretty face
Are you injured? Are you hurt?
Call the disaster babes
Are you wounded and in pain?
Call the disaster babes
Are you lonely, okay?
Call the disaster babes
Way back when, in a different kind of place
You could thrive with a radio face
It's the glamour boys, a hollow, stupid race
Ready for a close-up, no filter out of place
Are you injured? Are you hurt?
Call the disaster babes
Are you wounded and in pain?
Call the disaster babes
Are you lonely, okay?
Call the disaster babes
To the others who can't compete
Do they die in the dirt and admit defeat?
Kind and kind, tender-hearted, a hundred times smarter
It seems kind of wrong that they don't belong
Are you injured? Are you hurt?
Call the disaster babes
Are you wounded and in pain?
Call the disaster babes
Are you lonely, you okay?
Call the disaster babes
Are you injured? Are you hurt?
Call the disaster babes
Are you wounded and in pain?
Call the disaster babes
Are you injured, you okay?
Call the disaster babes
Are you injured? Are you hurt?
