A pretty girl, a pretty girl
Can walk anywhere
All doors open for her
Like a breath of fresh air,
Her beauty, it precedes her
Wrapped in her beauty,
Everywhere, she is welcome
First class on the plane,
Closed door of the club,
All faces turn, all faces turn
And they come alive,
With a desire to protect her
Nothing can interfere
With a dream of dreams so near
And when she caught my eye,
We were those for whom
The rules do not apply.

Chorus:

Pretty girl young man old man
Man with a gun
Two people in love (Two people in love)
The rules do not apply
To people in love
Pretty girl young man old man
Man with a gun
Two people in love (Two people in love)
The rules do not apply
To people in love

On a wire, a high wire
She likes to balance on a knife
She says on the wire,
That is living, oh,
You can forget the rest
On the wire, that is living,
Each step must be in place
So don't look down,
One false move is all it takes.
We'd rather risk it all;
Roll the dice and let them fall
They say we can't survive
But a life like this keeps me alive
Doesn't matter where we are,
I still say the rules do not apply

Chorus


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    General Comment

    well, i was actually hoping to find some other comments here but never mind...!

    brainyblockson December 18, 2008   Link
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    General Comment

    CAN ANYBODY NAME WHO HAS SUNG THIS

    sharky123on July 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment

    Jerry Harrison is the artist. He was in the Talking Heads. This is a great song and appears in the film Something Wild starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, & Ray Liota.

    minzoongson September 21, 2010   Link
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    General Comment

    She doesn't want to use a condom. There ya' go

    brown dog on October 09, 2017   Link
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    My Opinion

    This song reflects our society today. Pretty girls, old men, man with a gun... pretty much in that order. Pretty girls because men mostly do not look beyond the physical beauty to start with, and a lot of these girls go to extreme lengths to keep that attention; old men because young people will judge them and believe THEY will never get as old because they are vital and alive; but, inside they know that time passes for us all. Man with a gun, well, of course everyone pays attention to a man (or woman or child) with a gun. It is attention due to fear however; but they do get get the attention. The fear of 'not being' is a heavy weight on all of them. They have to get the attention to prove they are alive.

    Robyn1010on September 22, 2018   Link
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    General Comment

    Cocaine. It's about cocaine and the predicaments She creates.

    davidcjeon March 11, 2019   Link

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