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Pretty girls
You're too good for this
How you break my heart
In this cold waiting room
Oh my pretty girls
You're too good for this
Don't let them tell you you're nothing
Don't let them break your hearts too
The TV is blaring and angry
As if you don't know why you're here
Those who walk without sin are so hungry
Don't let the wolves in pretty girls
Your hearts are so tried and so innocent
Wind your flimsy blue gowns tight around you
Around curves so comely and sinister
They blame it on you pretty girls
Oh pretty girls
You're too good for this
How you break my heart
In this cold waiting room
Oh my pretty girls
You're too good for this
Don't let them tell you you're nothing
Don't let them break your hearts too
My girls you're just like the heavens
Not a soul to take your hand in theirs
Your tears and wild constellations
Broad limbs and hard folding chairs
But there's millions to count you and keep you
And lovers that don't understand
Don't let them tell you you're nothing
'Cause you'll change the world pretty girls
Come chain yourself 'round my ankle
You'll see the world like a bird
Diving down low
Flying up high
Through all of these saccharine gutters
We'll ride and I
Won't say that I told you so
Won't say that I told you so
Won't say that I told you so
Won't say that I told you so
You're too good for this
How you break my heart
In this cold waiting room
Oh my pretty girls
You're too good for this
Don't let them tell you you're nothing
Don't let them break your hearts too
The TV is blaring and angry
As if you don't know why you're here
Those who walk without sin are so hungry
Don't let the wolves in pretty girls
Your hearts are so tried and so innocent
Wind your flimsy blue gowns tight around you
Around curves so comely and sinister
They blame it on you pretty girls
Oh pretty girls
You're too good for this
How you break my heart
In this cold waiting room
Oh my pretty girls
You're too good for this
Don't let them tell you you're nothing
Don't let them break your hearts too
My girls you're just like the heavens
Not a soul to take your hand in theirs
Your tears and wild constellations
Broad limbs and hard folding chairs
But there's millions to count you and keep you
And lovers that don't understand
Don't let them tell you you're nothing
'Cause you'll change the world pretty girls
Come chain yourself 'round my ankle
You'll see the world like a bird
Diving down low
Flying up high
Through all of these saccharine gutters
We'll ride and I
Won't say that I told you so
Won't say that I told you so
Won't say that I told you so
Won't say that I told you so
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Pretty Girls Lyrics as written by Tom Ray Neko Case
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Nefresh, I totally agree with your calling this song "so, so incredible." This is one of my favorite songs by Case...on par with "Furnace Room Lullaby," "Hold on, Hold on," "Maybe Sparrow," and "People Got a Lot of Nerve."
I agree with the general direction of this thread, but I think there's also another important facet of the song, which is that "pretty girls" should not allow themselves (both body and soul, so to speak) to be defined by parties so remote as religious pundits or the military/industrial/entertainment complex, which of course are the real "wolves" that shouldn't get in. Cultural systems like the media industry or the religion industry are such massive entities that they inevitably reduce people to slogans or ideological chess pieces.
That line about the wolves, by the way, seems especially brilliant if we consider the warning in the New Testament in which Christ warns of hypocrites who appear as lambs, but are inwardly ravenous wolves (that's a paraphrase, of course). Christians who are really trying to live as Christ taught should, of course, be very tolorant of others and compassionate towards them, which is unfortunately exactly what we don't see in much of religious culture.
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