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Me on the guitar and vocals.
Okay okay, the subject matter is kinda... shallow... I'll admit it, but hey, I get one shallow song a year. That's my limit.
Okay okay, the subject matter is kinda... shallow... I'll admit it, but hey, I get one shallow song a year. That's my limit.
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Lyrics
THE PRETTY ONES
Stacey K. Black
Another pretty boy slips through my fingers
another handsome man slips through my grasp.
Rarely are they filled with any substance
mostly they're just pains in my ass.
I don't know what it is about me
that I can't resist their smiles and charms.
The ones with dreamy eyes and chiseled features
are the ones who should be setting off my alarms.
But I'm drawn to the pretty ones
like a moth to it's flaming fiery end
they say "hey, kid you seem okay
so I've got this great idea, let's be friends."
You'd think by now I'd learn my lesson
that the cover of a book is mostly hype.
I should read at least one page for content
to realize he's probably not my type.
But I'm drawn to the pretty ones
like a moth to it's flaming fiery end
they say "hey, kid you'll be okay
I've got this great idea, let's be friends."
Imagine my surprise
when right before my eyes
there appeared, the thing I most feared.
An angel in disguise
he said "your rules don't apply
to me, you can see
there's more to me
there's got to be."
And he held me
he held me.
And now I'm bound to a pretty one
and there's no better place I can dream of
he said "hey, kid you seem okay
so I've got this great idea, let's fall in love."
Stacey K. Black
Another pretty boy slips through my fingers
another handsome man slips through my grasp.
Rarely are they filled with any substance
mostly they're just pains in my ass.
I don't know what it is about me
that I can't resist their smiles and charms.
The ones with dreamy eyes and chiseled features
are the ones who should be setting off my alarms.
But I'm drawn to the pretty ones
like a moth to it's flaming fiery end
they say "hey, kid you seem okay
so I've got this great idea, let's be friends."
You'd think by now I'd learn my lesson
that the cover of a book is mostly hype.
I should read at least one page for content
to realize he's probably not my type.
But I'm drawn to the pretty ones
like a moth to it's flaming fiery end
they say "hey, kid you'll be okay
I've got this great idea, let's be friends."
Imagine my surprise
when right before my eyes
there appeared, the thing I most feared.
An angel in disguise
he said "your rules don't apply
to me, you can see
there's more to me
there's got to be."
And he held me
he held me.
And now I'm bound to a pretty one
and there's no better place I can dream of
he said "hey, kid you seem okay
so I've got this great idea, let's fall in love."
Ed Hannifin
...and I'm also appreciating your skills as a lyricist. You've got a good
sense of form, and what you say, you say clearly. That line, "I should
read at least one page for content" has me laughing... Some people
would write a line like that, but not be able to deliver it, but it comes
out really naturally here...
I'd love to hear this worked up a little more. I have this unreasoning
suspicion that it'd sound really good with stevel playing lead on it. It'd
end up sort of Richard and Linda Thompson-y...
The guitar tone is a little trebly to my ears. I could imagine it recorded
with a somewhat fuller sound, or doubled left and right, and I bet it
would take to a just slightly melodic bass.
Ed