Jealous Dogs - Pretenders

Those jealous dogs, always on the alert Tattle tale rights They’ll take your back and leave your shirt Like that jealous bitch 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 […]

I Go To Sleep - Pretenders

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 […]

Day After Day - Pretenders

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 […]

Birds Of Paradise - Pretenders

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 […]

Bad Boys Get Spanked - Pretenders

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 […]

Up The Neck - Pretenders

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 […]

The Wait - Pretenders

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 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 […]

The Phone Call - Pretenders

This is a mercy mission From a faceless messenger who don’t wanna see you hit Here’s the word, listen to it Somebody that 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 call box Winged demons are the hardest […]

Tattooed Love Boys - Pretenders

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 […]

Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders

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 […]