[ti:Pretty Things]
[ar:Gretchen Peters]
[al:Blackbirds]
[00:10.79]Pretty Things-Gretchen Peters
[00:27.42]I knew a girl who said that beauty kills
[00:32.66]dulled the pain with wine and pills
[00:36.20]took that slow ride down the hill to nowhere
[00:42.07]she said Pompeii crumbled and Athens fell
[00:47.02]heathens stormed the citadel
[00:51.22]a girl like me ain’t got a chance in hell against ‘em
[00:56.93]oh pretty things, pretty things gone to ruin
[01:12.60]oh pretty things, pretty things gone to ruin
[01:29.52]rained three days, when we awoke
[01:32.49]sun came out and the levee broke
[01:36.10]like some cruel and cosmic joke God’s playing
[01:41.41]now I don’t pretend that I believe
[01:47.52]I know there ain’t no guarantees
[01:50.60]still morning finds me on my knees and praying
[01:57.26]oh pretty things, pretty things gone to ruin
[02:27.97]
[02:55.01]come the flood you build an ark
[03:00.68]come the night you curse the dark
[03:04.50]inside your broken heart you bear the crosses
[03:11.01]some of us have got it made
[03:15.27]some of us have more than paid
[03:19.69]but we’re all marching in this slow parade of losses
[03:26.69]oh pretty things, pretty things gone to ruin
[03:41.66]oh pretty things, pretty things gone to ruin
[03:56.55]oh pretty things, pretty things gone to ruin