Pretty Baby

Album: Parallel Lines (1978)
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  • Stars live in the evening
    But the very young need the sun, uh-huh
    Pretty baby, you look so heavenly
    A neo-nebular from under the sun
    I was forming, some say I had my chance
    The boys were falling like an avalanche

    Ya ya baby
    La Dolce Vita is a magic dance
    No-one was listening
    Pretty baby, un petite ingenue
    A teenage starlet, I fell in love with you

    You, you with the comb
    You look OK in every way (every way)
    Ah, I should have known
    You'd look at me and look away (and look away - oh)

    Pretty baby, you look so heavenly
    A neo-nebular from under the sun
    Eyes that tell me incense and peppermints
    Your looks are larger than life, long live innocence
    Petite ingenue, I fell in love with you
    Pretty baby, I fell in love with you, whoah oh
    Pretty baby, oh oh
    Pretty baby, whoah oh, I fell in love with you Writer/s: Chris Stein, Deborah Harry
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Les from Riverstone Nsw AustraliaI love Blondie and I always have. She is Rock & Roll
  • Fred from Laurel, MdNever heard this tune, but I see there's an allusion in it to the 1967 psychedelic-rock hit, "Incense and Peppermints" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock.

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