PERFECT
SKIN
(LLoyd
Cole & The Commotions)
I
choose my friends only far too well
i'm
up on the pavement, they're all down in the cellar
with
their government grants and my i.q.
they
brought me down to size, academia blues
louise
is a girl, i know her well
she's
up on the pavement, yes she's a weather girl
and
i'm staying up here so i may be undone
she's
inappropriate, but then she's much more fun and
when
she smiles my way
my
eyes go out in vain
she's
got perfect skin
shame
on you, you've got no sense of grace, shame on me
ah
just in case i might come to a conclusion
other
than that which is absolutely necessary
and
that's perfect skin
louise
is the girl with the perfect skin
she
says turn on the light, otherwise it can't be seen
she's
got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin
and
she's sexually enlightened by cosmopolitan and
when
she smiles my way
my
eyes go out in vain
for
her perfect skin
yeah
that's perfect skin
she
takes me down to the basement to look at her slides
of
her family life, pretty weird at times
at
the age of ten she looked like greta garbo
and
i loved her then, but how was she to know that
when
she smiles my way
my
eyes go out in vain
she's
got perfect skin
up
eight flights of stairs to her basement flat
pretty
confused huh, being shipped around like that
seems
we climbed so high now we're down so low
strikes
me the moral of this song must be there never has been one. |
RATTLESNAKES
(LLoyd
COle & The Commotions)
Jodie wears a hat although
it hasn't rained for six days
She says a girl needs a
gun these days
Hey on account of all the
rattlesnakes
She looks like eve marie
saint in on the waterfront
She reads simone de beauvoir
in her american circumstance
She's less than sure if
her heart has come to stay in san jose
And her neverborn child
still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with
the traffic police
Out of boredom more than
spite
She never finds no trouble,
she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself
She looks like eve marie
saint in on the waterfront
She says all she needs is
therapy yeah
All you need is, love is
all you need
Jodie never sleeps 'cause
there are always needles in the hay
She says that a girl needs
a gun these days
Hey on account of all the
rattlesnakes
She looks like eve marie
saint in on the waterfront
As she reads simone de beauvoir
in her american circumstance
Her heart, heart's like
crazy paving
Upside down and back to
front
She says ooh, it's so hard
to love
When love was your great
disappointment. |
SPEEDBOATS
(LLoyd
Cole & The Commotions)
Julie said we drink far
too much coffee
wine and cigarettes and
we never get no sleep
i first met them at a riverboat
party
both of them were speeding
i would say
i lived on the edge of all
this indulgence
taking notes and trusting
in prudence
julie said to jim why don't
we jump in
while the water is cool
and we are still friends
some say that they o.d.'d
on leonard cohen
well i can see that river
whenever i think about them
the river is cruel and the
water is deep and blue
i was working then on my
great unfinished novel
"please let introduce myself
my name is ronald"
i was okay there until i
lost my cool
now let me introduce you
to the rest of the crew
it wasn't my style to find
surf in my eye
it was much more my style
to find sand in my eyes
though there is absolutely
no truth to be discovered
albeit truth then is nothing
to be found
we academics are not easily
discouraged
lloyd you know wits they
come three to the pound
julie said to jim look at
the state we're in
it was never her intention
to conclude anything
it wasn't my style to find
surf in my eye
it was much more my style
to find sand in my eyes
it was just not my style
to find surf in my eye
it was much more my style
to get sand kicked in my eyes
sand in my eyes. |
GRADUATION
SONG
(Vitamin
C)
And so we talked all night
about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when
we turn 25
I keep thinking times will
never change
Keep on thinking things
will always be the same
But when we leave this year
we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause
we're on a different track
And if you got something
that you need to say
You better say it right
now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and
we can't slow down
These memories are playing
like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that
night in June
I didn't know much of love
But it came too soon
And there was me and you
And then we got real cool
Stay at home talking on
the telephone with me
We'd get so excited and
we'd get so scared
Laughing at ourselves, thinking
life's not fair
And this is how it feels
Chorus:
As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come whatever
We will still be
Friends forever
So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be
funny?
Will we still remember everything
we learned in school?
Still be trying to break
every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby
be the stockbroker man?
Can we ever find a job that
won't interfere with a tan?
I keep, keep thinking that
it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a
time to fly
And this is how it feels
Chorus
La, la, la, la
Yeah, yeah, yeah
La, la, la, la
We will still be friends
forever
Will we think about tomorrow
like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this
would never end
And suddenly it's like we're
women and men
Will the past be a shadow
that will follow us 'round?
Will these memories fade
when I leave this town?
I keep, keep thinking that
it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a
time to fly
Chorus 3x |
