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PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES

SONG LYRICS

I threw your ring into the sea
Splashes reaching to heaven
To tell you the truth I won't miss it much
I threw my soul into the sea

Pretty girls make graves
Pretty girls make graves

I started to dream in the 3-D
Derail, discard, and drowning
Woke up to feel my stupid heart beat
I tore it out, it's just a piece of meat

Pretty girls make graves
Pretty girls make graves

If my feet could just get back on
The ground where they belong
I could walk back into my life
But I'm drifting through the darkness
Of a burnout every night
I just need to find someone
Who won't cost me my life

(solo)

Atom bomb bikini
Soldiers marching through the waves
Towards another beached messiah
While pretty girls make graves

Pretty girls make graves
Pretty girls make graves
Pretty girls make graves
Pretty girls make graves
SONG DETAILS
Performed By: Dada
Written By: Calio/Gurley/Leavitt
Published By: Thumbsucker Music / Pop's Morgan Music / IRS Music / Little Mother Music / Moir Music / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)

SONG NOTES

The song title comes from a line in Kerouac's The Dharma Bums: ""Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico. And the absence of active lust in me had also given me a new peaceful life that I was enjoying a great deal. But this was too much. I was still afraid to take my clothes off; also I never liked to do that in front of more than one person, especially with men around."

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