Local Girls

Album: Squeezing Out Sparks (1979)
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  • Sit by my window and look outside, wonder why the sun don't shine on me
    What's wrong with you, you stupid child, don't you think that I'm the one
    You're waiting to see?
    Don't talk too much 'cause she falls for the suckers, makes her feel
    Everything is secure
    Don't ever leave a footprint on the floor

    Don't bother with the local girls, don't bother with the local girls
    They don't bother me

    She's probably half-wit, she must be straight,
    Or bound to have a mother who knows nothing but hate
    Don't want to love her, I'd rather knock her down
    Standing at the bus stop where she waits each morning
    So isolated that she thinks that the army is the place where a man ought to be
    Don't bother with them, they don't bother me

    Don't bother with the local girls, don't bother with the local girls
    They don't bother me

    They got the walk, they got the talk, right down without a flaw
    At 6:00 I got to stop my dreaming at the counter of the store

    Don't bother with the local girls, don't bother with the local girls
    They don't bother me

    Without a doubt I got to intercept, must be time someone ran and shouted in
    Their head
    You look all right in the cheap print dress,
    But every time you swish it 'round you make me disappear
    I'm aware of exactly what I'm doing, making everything a mystery
    Don't bother with it, it don't bother me Writer/s: Graham Parker
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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