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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
Lyrics submitted by _scandalous
Track duration: 03:26
"Pretty Girls" as written by William Charles Jordan, Clemmie Rishad Penton, Jonathan Reuven Rotem, Keidran Kenmore Jones, Marty James, Travis L. Mccoy, Jordan Witzigreuter
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, BUG MUSIC
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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.
Something I take away from Case's music is a profound sense of humanitianism, similar to other artists like Joni Mitchell, Billie Holliday, John Lennon (in his best moments), or Peter Gabriel.
"Curves so comely and sinister" - it is a woman's fault for being a woman and tempting men.
This song is so, so incredible.
i always thought this song was kinda bitter and sarcastic, like she was being ironic when she sings "your too good for this".
but after reading all these comments it's now seems likey i was off about that. i especially agree that its about rape and the social stigma attached. the lines about not a soul taking your hand in theirs and "they blame it on you" a giveaways of this.
but now i look at some of the other lyrics i'm a bit reluctant somehow to throw away my first theory. "as if you don't know why you're here" sounds a bit accusing. i dunno, i'm ambivalent about this. maybe so's niko and that's the point?
But there's millions to count you and keep you
I recently realized this line could refer to collecting pin-ups photos or playboy centerfolds.
and also:
Don't let them tell you you're nothing
'Cause you'll change the world pretty girls
could be a reference to those girls seen only as sexual objects but that end up being a symbol of a whole decade or generation.
and i like the imagery of peaches' statement of neko rescuing the girls.
I never thought of the girls as dead, because this song is about overcoming the stigmas and restrictions people want to put on you, and it's hard to overcome this when you're gone.
Anyway, diatribe over, and now I have to work out just who and where is this person that says, "Come chain yourself from my ankles"? Ankles? A girl who died on the abortion table? Or is my imagination just a little too worked up at the moment?