Pretenders

Precious


I like the way you cross the street
'Cause I'm precious.
Moving through the Cleavland heat,
How precious.
You're taking nights and all the kicks:
You're so precious.
But you know I ain't shittin' bricks,
'cause I'm precious.
He's picked at fifth and Euclid Avenue:
Was real precious.
Hotel, still and comin' into view.
How precious.
Pity that you bruised my hip,
'cause I'm precious.
You shouldn't let your manners slip:
You're too precious.
Make me wanna -
Make me wanna -
Maybe make it.
We were bound, bound, bound, bound to show it.
We want to do it, do it, do it, do it on the pavement.
Maybe, maybe I'm going to have a baby.
We want to do it - do it all night.
I was feeling kind of ethereal.
'Cause I'm precious.
I got my eye on your imperial.
You're so precious.
Now, Howard the Duck and Mister Strausbow Straid:
Precious.
Trapped in a world that they never made.
But not me, baby - I'm too precious.

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

Kid


Kid what changed your mood
You’ve gone all sad so I feel sad too
I think I know some things we never outgrow
You think it’s wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don’t want me to


Kid my only kid
You look so small you’ve gone so quiet
I know you know what I’m about
I won’t deny it
But you forgive though you don’t understand
You’ve turned your head
You’ve dropped by hand


All my sorrow, all my blues
All my sorrow


Shut the light, go away
Full of grace, you cover your face


Kid gracious kid
Your eyes are blue but you won’t cry
I know angry tears are too dear
You won’t let them go

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

Lovers Of Today


I tried to talk to my baby
I said no no no no baby
Please don’t cry
No no no baby please
’cause all of the leaves come down
Every time babies cry
All of the leaves come down


I put my arms around my baby
I said hush hush hush hush
Baby sleep tight now
Hush hush hush baby sleep
’cause all of the birds start to sing
Every time babies dream
All of the birds start to sing


Nobody wants to see
Lovers of today happy
So assumed they’re going to part
Nobody wants to be with someone
So afraid they’ll be left with
A broken heart


I kissed the eyes of my baby
I said dream dream dream dream
Baby all night long
Dream dream dream all the night
’cause all of the stars in the skies
Twinkle on baby’s eyes
All of the stars in the skies


I tried to talk to you baby
No no
No I’ll never feel
Like a man in a man’s world

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

Mystery Achievement


Don't breathe down my neck no
I got no trophies on display
I sign them away
I mean what the heck
All of your promises
Dont fill me with pride no
I just want to get out on the floor
And do the Cuban Slide Slide Slide Slide
Chorus:
Everyday every night time I find
Mystery achievement
You're on my mind on my mind on my mind
Everyday every night time I feel
Mystery achievement
You're so unreal
Mystery achievement
Where's my sandy beach yeah
I have my dreams like everybody else
But their out of reach
I said right out of reach
I try to ignore you
Your demands are unending yeah
I got no Ts on my skin,
But you know me: I love pretending.
Repeat chorus

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

Private Life


Your private life drama baby leave me out
(repeat 3 times)
J’ai les glands with your theatrics
Your acting’s a drag
It’s ok on tv ’cause you can turn it off
But don’t try me
Yes your marriage is a tragedy
But it’s not my concern
I’m very superficial I hate anything official


(chorus)
Your private life drama baby leave me out
(repeat 3 times)
(backup chorus)
You’ve been lying to someone and now me
Stop
(repeat 3 times)


Your sentimental gestures only bore me to death
You’ve made a desperate appeal now save your breath
Attachment to obligation through guilt and regret
Shit that’s so wet
And your sex life complications are not my fascinations


(chorus)

You asked me for advice I said use the door
But you’re still clinging to somebody you deplore
And now you wanna use me for emotional blackmail
I just feel pity when you lie, contempt when you cry


(chorus)

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

Stop Your Sobbing


IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO STOP ALL OF YOUR SOBBING
YES IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO STOP ALL OF YOUR SOBBING OH OH OH
THERE'S ONE THING YOU GOTTA DO
TO MAKE ME STILL WANT YOU
GOTTA STOP SOBBING NOW
YEAH YEAH STOP IT STOP IT


IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO LAUGH INSTEAD OF CRYING
YES IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO LAUGH SO KEEP ON TRYING OH OH OH
THERE'S ONE THING YOU GOTTA DO
TO MAKE ME STILL WANT YOU
GOTTA STOP SOBBING NOW
YEAH YEAH STOP IT STOP IT


EACH LITTLE TEAR THAT FALLS FROM YOUR EYES
MAKES, MAKES ME WANT
TO TAKE YOU IN MY ARMS AND TELL YOU
TO STOP ALL YOUR SOBBING


THERE'S ONE THING YOU GOTTA DO
TO MAKE ME STILL WANT YOU
AND THERE'S ONE THING YOU GOTTA KNOW
TO MAKE ME WANT YOU SO
GOTTA STOP SOBBING NOW
YEAH YEAH STOP IT STOP IT

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

Tattooed Love Boys


The mid twenty joys around a heart that’s black and blue
Tattooed love boys
I tore my knees up getting to you
’cause I needed
To find out what the thing was for
Been reading
But man the time came to explore


I went apewire ’cause I thought
Like I’d like it little tease
But I didn’t mean it
But you mess with the goods doll, honey you gotta pay, yeah


A good time was guaranteed for one and all
The tattoos did target practice in the hall
While waiting for their number to get called out
I, i, i, I found out what the wait was about


I was a good time, yeah, I got pretty good
At changing tyres upstairs bro
I shot my mouth off and you showed me what that hole was for


Now I see you
All impressed and half undressed
You got paint stick all over the scars and lumps and bumps
Tattooed love boys
Have got you where I used to lay
Well ha ha too bad, but you know what they say
"stop snivellin’, you’re gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man"


Oh, but the prestige and the glory
Another human interest story
You are that

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

The Phone Call

This is a mercy mission
from a faceless messenger who dont want to see you hit
Here's the word
Listen to it
Somebody you used to know is back in town
You better go
This is a mercy mission
A voice you'll never hear again
from a southside callbox
Winged demons are the hardest to outfox
The same one you lost on the run
is gonna show you how to have some fun
You better get out of town cause you're gonna get hit
This is mercy mission
You'll find your schedule underneath the door
All the arrangements have been made
Major expenses have been paid as you know
Dont forget the last details
accept no parcels in the mail

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

The Wait


Said the wait child, magic child, work it on out now work it
The wait child, pinball child, pool hall child hurts
The wait child, pacing child, forth and back now hurts
The wait child, neon light, late night lights hurt
Oh gonna' hurt some child, child
Gonna' hurt some, whoa my baby
Said the wait child, bruised ball child, pride slapped child hurts
The wait child, crest-felled child, tear eyed child hurts
The wait child, bus-stop child, late come child hurts
The wait child, platform walk, idle talk hurts
Oh gonna' hurt some child, child
Gonna' hurt some, whoa my baby
I said child child staring into the street light
Messed up child, lonley boy tonight
Kick the wall, turn the street and back again
Oh boy you've been forgotten (repeat)
Said the wait child, pacing child, forth and back now hurts
The wait child, bus-stop child, late come child hurts
The wait child, pool-hall child, pin-table now hurts
The wait child, magic child, work it on out now work it
Oh gonna' hurt some child, child, child, child, child
Gonna' hurt some, whoa my baby

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

Up The Neck


Anger and lust my senses running amok
Bewildered and deluded, have I been hit by a truck?
When my tongue lay inside his lip
Felt like the time in the womb
But I woke up with a headache that split my skull
Alone in the room


I got down on the floor with my head pressed between my knees
Under the bed with my teeth sunk into my own flesh
I said "baby, oh sweetheart"


Lust turns to anger, a kiss to a slug
Something was sticky on your shag rug, look at the tile
I remember the way he groaned and moved with an animal skill
I rubbed my face in the sweat that ran down his chest
It was all very run of the mill
But I noticed his scent started to change somehow
His face went berserk and the veins bulged on his brow
I said "baby, oh sweetheart"


Bondage to lust, abuse of facility
Blackmailed emotions confuse the demon and devotee
I was sure his intentions were sweet
And that mine was as well
But a wish is a shot in the dark
When your coin’s down the well


I got out in the hall with my teeth in my head
Up to my neck and I said, said, said dead
I said "baby, oh sweetheart"

Pretenders - Pretenders - 1980

Bad Boys Get Spanked


You’re not supposed to do that
You know you’re not allowed to
But you seem to get some kind of kick
Out of doing what you’re not allowed to
You deliberately defy the rules
’cause the law’s upheld by fools
Shit on that
Bad boys get spanked


You can look but don’t touch
But no you can’t resist
Don’t you ever think about the consequence
Guys like you never do
That’s the kind of stuff boys are made out of
That’s the kind of stuff girls are made out of
Bad boys get spanked
Bad boys get spanked


You don’t listen do you asshole
Don’t be a punk all your life
Someone’s gonna sort you out
They’ll try to make a man out of you
Say yes sir, say no sir
Say yes ma’am, say no m’am
Shit on that
Bad boys get spanked
Bad boys get spanked


Get spanked, get spanked
Come here, get spanked
Bad boys get spanked
Come here, get spanked

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Birds Of Paradise


I wrote a letter to you my friend
So many letters that I never send
I think about you at the day’s end
The time that we had
I laughed in my bed
The stupid things you said
We were two birds of paradise


When I was a little girl
With clay horses and lambs on the shelf
I caught frogs in ditches, listened for elves
My friends and I had a world unto ourselves
No grownups could find us when we
Made our plans so secretly
To run away and fly to be
With the two birds of paradise


Now once upon a time my mind still there wanders
Back in the room the things I remember
One time when we took off our clothes
But you were cryin’, cryin’
You said nothing lasts forever
We were happy together
I thought about you in stockholm and rome
Me in my hotel room
You in your home
This is the life they say that
Dreams are made of
Don’t forget
Please do forgive me
I still have something you did give me
Come into my dream with me and dream


Please don’t forget
Do forgive me
I still have something you did give me
Come into my dream with me and dream
Oh dream of paradise

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Day After Day


WAY UP IN THE SKY
OVER THE CITY, OVER TOKYO
SILVER LIGHT, SUMMER MOON
YOU'LL BE OVER SOMEBODY'S WINTER THIS AFTERNOON
WHILE THE DOLPHINS SWIM IN THE SEA
YOU'RE GOING GREY, MY BABY
STILL THE WAR IS WAGING ENDLESSLY
DAY AFTER DAY, DAY AFTER DAY


WAY UP IN THE SKY
OVER THE CITY AND LAKE ERIE
YOU REMEMBER THE FLATS, YOU WERE THERE
OUT EVERY NIGHT MR MOONLIGHT


ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND WE GO
JUST LIKE YESTERDAY


WAY UP IN THE SKY
OVER THE CITY WHERE YOU SLEEP TONIGHT
THE LIGHT OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW BLINKS
"HOTEL, HOTEL, HOTEL"
OPEN THE BLIND AND DREAM IN A MOONBEAM


WHEN THE WAR'S FINALLY OVER
WE'LL MEET AGAIN
AND PICK UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

I Go To Sleep


WHEN I LOOK UP FROM MY PILLOW
I DREAM YOU ARE THERE WITH ME
THOUGH YOU ARE FAR AWAY
I KNOW YOU'LL ALWAYS BE NEAR TO ME


I GO TO SLEEP, SLEEP
AND IMAGINE THAT YOU'RE THERE WITH ME
I GO TO SLEEP, SLEEP
AND IMAGINE THAT YOU'RE THERE WITH ME


I LOOK AROUND ME
AND FEEL YOU ARE EVER SO CLOSE TO ME
EACH TEAR THAT FLOWS FROM MY EYE
BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF YOU TO ME


I GO TO SLEEP, SLEEP
AND IMAGINE THAT YOU'RE THERE WITH ME
I GO TO SLEEP, SLEEP
AND IMAGINE THAT YOU'RE THERE WITH ME


I WAS WRONG, I WILL CRY
I WILL LOVE YOU TILL THE DAY I DIE
YOU WERE ALL, YOU ALONE AND NO ONE ELSE
YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME


WHEN MORNING COMES AGAIN
I HAVE THE LONELINESS YOU LEFT ME
EACH DAY DRAGS BY
UNTIL FINALLY MY TIME DESCENDS ON ME


I GO TO SLEEP, SLEEP
AND IMAGINE THAT YOU'RE THERE WITH ME
I GO TO SLEEP, SLEEP
AND IMAGINE THAT YOU'RE THERE WITH ME

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Jealous Dogs


Those jealous dogs, always on the alert
Tattle tale rights
They’ll take your back and leave your shirt
Like that jealous bit*h
Always wanting more
The courts have made her rich
And the click of high heels down the corridor
Jealous, jealous, jealous dogs


Those jealous dogs, detectives every one
Don’t be a sucker all your life
She’s gonna have you hung
Evidence, evidence, evidence
Suspicion invites treachery
Oh you really got taken
Bringing home the bacon
Jealous, jealous, jealous dogs


Bow wow wow, here come the dogs
Grrrrrr, here come the dogs
Don’t lay down, here come the dogs
Stand straight don’t slouch
Get down off the couch


You’re gonna wet on the couch
Get down, get down


Those jealous dogs, they get worse and worse
Everytime you turn around
They’re sniffin’ at your purse
Who do they think we are?
What do they think we do?
It’s hard to get in the mood
When you’re treated like some kind of dog food
Jealous, jealous, jealous dogs


Bow wow wow, here come the dogs
Oh ruff ruff, here come the dogs
Get down, here come the dogs
Mind your leg, roll over and beg


Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Louie Louie


Shh...here they come
Now louie louie had his day
Nothin’ gonna change it now
The rats and snakes will never fade away
Not while I’m alive
Hey! hey! hey! hey!
There come the cossacks
The road spiders
The super gliders
Burnin’ trash, flickin’ class, all the white trash
Yeah!
Hey! hey! hey! hey!


Now louie louie had his time
Seemed like only yesterday
Sandy and harry got married and moved away
’cause they had nothin’ left to say
Yeah!
You with the glasses, I’ll see you later
We’ll find love I know
Rockin’, reelin’, double dealin’, one more time this time with feelin’
Yeah!
Hey! hey! hey! hey!
Go boys, yeah!


You move so fine
Yeah what a scene I said
Mmm, kinda aquiline
Yeah baby saw through this now
You smell so good
Yeah, and your shirt’s always pressed
You’ll be the best inside my baby
Yeah, we’re all under arrest now!


Louie louie made his mark
On this tender heart of mine
The jamaican moon don’t let it get dark
Though we rock out in the night time

Yeah! let’s get on outta here now, let’s go!

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Message Of Love


NOW THE REASON WE'RE HERE
AS MAN AND WOMAN
IS TO LOVE EACH OTHER
TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER
WHEN LOVE WALKS IN THE ROOM
EVERYBODY STAND UP
OH IT'S GOOD, GOOD, GOOD
LIKE BRIGITTE BARDOT


NOW LOOK AT THE PEOPLE
IN THE STREETS, IN THE BARS
WE ARE ALL OF US IN THE GUTTER
BUT SOME OF US ARE LOOKING AT THE STARS
LOOK ROUND THE ROOM
LIFE IS UNKIND
WE FALL BUT WE KEEP GETTIN' UP
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER


ME AND YOU, EVERY NIGHT, EVERY DAY
WE'LL BE TOGETHER ALWAYS THIS WAY
YOUR EYES ARE BLUE LIKE THE HEAVENS ABOVE
TALK TO ME DARLIN' WITH A MESSAGE OF LOVE


NOW THE REASON WE'RE HERE
EVERY MAN, EVERY WOMAN
IS TO HELP EACH OTHER
STAND BY EACH OTHER
WHEN LOVE WALKS IN THE ROOM
EVERYBODY STAND UP
OH IT'S GOOD, GOOD GOOD
SAY I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU


TALK TO ME DARLIN'

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Pack It Up


You guys are the pits of the world!

Oh, this is no place for me
Burnin’ down the interbelt, from jacuzzi to jacuzzi
It’s all right for you man
Gettin’ smashed, gettin’ suntanned
But I know my place
Where’s my suitcase?


Pack it up or throw it away
What I can’t carry, bury
Oh you remember me, I remember you
But that was a long, long time ago
When I was passin’ through


All my family, all my friends, my lover
I got to find them
My enemies, my new family, my new friends
My future enemies, I got to flush them out


Pack it all up, nothing goes in storage
I’m burnin’ every bridge
Burn, baby, burn
I see your dog got shot
Well, hell, never mind
That’s show biz, big boy
You’ve got to be cruel to be kind


Oh, give over and admit it
I’ve been tearing down the interstate
Like some kind of bleeding cat
It’s all right for the boss
His gain’s my loss
That gets me down, it really gets me down


So pack it up and cut the crap
When the clock starts talkin’, I start walkin’
When you pass in your porsche
Please don’t offer me a ride
I may be a skunk
But you’re a piece of junk, and furthermore
I don’t like your trousers
Your appalling taste in women
And what about your mind
Your insipid record collection
That dumb home video center
The usual pronography
And all you scumbags around the world
You’re the pits of the world!

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Talk Of The Town

SUCH A DRAG TO WANT SOMETHING SOMETIME
ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER I KNOW
WAS A TIME WANTED YOU FOR MINE
NOBODY KNEW
YOU ARRIVED LIKE A DAY
AND PASSED LIKE A CLOUD
I MADE A WISH, I SAID IT OUT LOUD
OUT LOUD IN A CROWD
EVERYBODY HEARD
'TWAS THE TALK OF THE TOWN


IT'S NOT MY PLACE TO KNOW WHAT YOU FEEL
I'D LIKE TO KNOW BUT WHY SHOULD I?
WHO WERE YOU THEN, WHO ARE YOU NOW?
COMMON LABOURER BY NIGHT, BY DAY HIGHBROW
BACK IN MY ROOM I WONDER, THEN I
SIT ON THE BED, LOOK AT THE SKY
UP IN THE SKY
CLOUDS REARRANGE
LIKE THE TALK OF THE TOWN


MAYBE TOMORROW, MAYBE SOMEDAY
MAYBE TOMORROW, MAYBE SOMEDAY
YOU'VE CHANGED YOUR PLACE IN THIS WORLD
YOU'VE CHANGED YOUR PLACE IN THIS WORLD


OH BUT IT'S HARD TO LIVE BY THE RULES
I NEVER COULD AND STILL NEVER DO
THE RULES AND SUCH NEVER BOTHERED YOU
YOU CALL THE SHOTS AND THEY FOLLOW
I WATCH YOU STILL FROM A DISTANCE THEN GO
BACK TO MY ROOM, YOU NEVER KNOW
I WANT YOU, I WANT YOU BUT NOW
WHO'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN?

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

The Adultress


I’m the adultress
But I didn’t want to be and I’m convenient
And I make good tea
I stand accused
Of the worst crime in history
That’s my mystery
I’m the adultress


I go to the park
With a bag of crumbs for the birds
That’s where we meet without words
He takes my hand
And stares into the wood
There’s nothing to understand
It’s understood
I’m the adultress


Look at the fool
Made up to go out
She’s desperate and lonely
But she’s puttin’ it about
Look at the spinster
Comin’ down off the shelf
She’s in love and she hates herself


Don’t try to stop me
Don’t get in my way
It’s too late
I’ve made my play
Does misery love company
I’ll be in the bar
You’ll find me

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

The English Roses


Just before it rains
The wind whips ’round the balcony
And the sky closes on the english roses
And she’ll be pacin’
’round and ’round and ’round and ’round her room
These storms always find here to remind her


To the endless sky
The pink over grey
She looks for an answer
But it’s too late
Maybe it’s true
Some things were just never meant to be
Maybe not


This is a story
Fruit cut from the vine
Forgot and left to rot
Long before it’s time
This is a story
About the girl who lived next door
Looking for someone to hold


A wish made on a star
Brought her here tonight
At a courtyard she waits
A thousand broken dates
But she holds the hymnal
Where so carefully pressed
Is the english rose she laid to rest


It’s only a story
Flowers in full bloom
Bouquets in every room
Ooh, this is a story
Fruit cut from the vine
Looking for someone to hold

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Waste Not Want Not


Take, take, take, takin’ what you don’t need
You’ll get, get, gettin’ what you don’t need
Stand back, take a look and take heed
All the children in god’s kingdom bleed
See the networks of concrete and steel
They’ve no mystery but what they reveal
Tells a story of a future that’s void
Of the beauty and the majesty that life on
Earth is meant to be


Talk, talk, talk, talk about the government
And not a word about political favour
Everything touched is my political choice
The life you take is your political voice
The sacred cows come crashing to their knees
Golden harvest reaped without intelligence
There’s no chance between the heavens and the seas
In a blood bath don’t laugh
Grab your piece of golden calf


Waste not want not pick it up
Waste not want not pick it up
Waste not want not pick it up
Waste not want not


Do unto others as you wish be done to you
There’s a million lies ’round everything true
You slaughter when you feast
You disrespect the beast
Make our beds and lie there, take your share


Waste not want not pick it up
Waste not want not pick it up
Waste not want not pick it up
Pick it up and eat it
Waste not want not

Pretenders - Pretenders 2 - 1981

Do sada su postavljeni ovi tekstovi:

1. Bad Boys Get Spanked
2. Birds Of Paradise
3. Brass In Pocket
4. Day After Day
5. I Go To Sleep
6. Jealous Dogs
7. Louie Louie
8. Kid
9. Lovers Of Today
10. Message Of Love
11. Mystery Achievement
12. Pack It Up
13. Precious
14. Privete Life
15. Stop Your Sobbing
16. Talk Of The Town
17. Tattooed Love Boys
18. The Adultress
19. The English Roses
20. The Phone Call
21. The Wait
22. Up The Neck
23. Waste Not Want Not