Album: Pretenders II (1980)

Charted: 8

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• Such a drag to want something sometime
  One thing leads to another I know
  Was a time wanted you for mine
  Nobody knew
  You arrived like a day
  And passed like a cloud
  I made a wish, I said it out loud
  Out loud in a crowd
  Everybody heard
  'Twas the talk of the town
  
  It's not my place to know what you feel
  I'd like to know but why should I?
  Who were you then, who are you now?
  Common laborer by night, by day highbrow
  Back in my room I wonder, then I
  Sit on the bed, look at the sky
  Up in the sky
  Clouds rearrange
  Like the talk of the town
  
  Maybe tomorrow, maybe someday
  Maybe tomorrow, maybe someday
  You've changed your place in this world
  You've changed your place in this world
  
  Oh but it's hard to live by the rules
  I never could and still never do
  The rules and such never bothered you
  You call the shots and they follow
  I watch you still from a distance then go
  Back to my room, you never know
  I want you, I want you but now
  Who's the talk of the town? Writer/s: CHRISSIE HYNDE
  Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TuneCore Inc.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• Special Monkey from New YorkI just realized what a great song this was recently after hearing it a few days ago on WFUV, I'm so late! The structure is amazing and lyrics a bit unpredictable (asymmetric maybe?), and I like that so much. It's challenging to try to remember and sing along. It's definitely a song about longing and admiration, but I really like the structure of the lyrics and Chrissie's voice, her pronunciation of certain words, and the phrasing.
• Jim from Long Beach, CaMike, I disagree with you. This is one of the Pretenders finest.I agree about the opening riff it truly takes me back to that place when I first heard this great song. My sophomore year in high school, that is when time stood still..
• Mike from Matawan, NjThis is not just one of the Pretenders finest, but one of the finest songs of that era. The minute I hear that opening riff it takes me back to that place.
• Matt from Atlanta, GaABSOLUTELY one of the best songs of the 80's. I'm a true rock and roller. I never warmed up to punk, but I learned to live with New Wave. I was 20 and in love. I thought this was the coolest song. I saw them live at UNH. Chrissie is such a bad ass!

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