Pretty Vacant

Album: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)
Charted: 6
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  • There's no point in asking
    You'll get no reply.
    Oh just remember a don't decide
    I got no reason it's all too much
    You'll always find us
    Out to lunch

    Oh we're so pretty
    Oh so pretty
    We're vacant
    Oh we're so pretty
    Oh so pretty
    A-vacant

    Don't ask us to attend
    'Cause we're not all there.
    Oh don't pretend 'cause I don't care
    I don't believe illusions 'cause too much is real
    So stop your cheap comment
    'Cause we know what we feel

    Oh we're so pretty
    Oh so pretty
    We're vacant
    Oh we're so pretty
    Oh so pretty
    A-vacant

    Oh we're so pretty
    Oh so pretty
    Ah but now
    And we don't care

    There's no point in asking
    You'll get no reply.
    Oh just remember a don't decide
    I got no reason it's all too much
    You'll always find me
    Out to lunch, we're outta lunch

    Oh we're so pretty
    Oh so pretty
    We're vacant

    Oh we're so pretty
    Oh so pretty
    We're vacant

    Oh we're so pretty
    Oh so pretty
    Ah but now
    And we don't care

    We're pretty a-pretty vacant
    We're pretty a-pretty vacant
    We're pretty a-pretty vacant
    We're pretty a-pretty vacant
    We don't care Writer/s: Glen Matlock, John Lydon, Paul Spencer Cook, Steve Jones
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 3

  • Speedie John from Athens GaBlank Generation was a song by Richard Hell, the NY Punk Pioneer who played with Television, Johnny Thunders Heartbreakers & later his own band called Richard Hell & The Void Oids. Malcolm McClaren had been the manager of the NY Dolls toward the end of their days with Mercury Records. I grew up in NYC and saw The Heartbreakers when Richard Hell was still in the band at what was the band's first gig. They performed Blank Generation that night, it was at The Coventry, a club in Queens. Malcom McLaren was also in attendance. It's well documented that Malcom was influenced by Richard Hell's lyrics & Punk Fashion. He took those influences back to the UK.
  • Nedkelly from Sydney, AustraliaFew tunes gave me that tingle up my spine....No Fun by the Stooges, I want you now by MC5, Shake appeal by the Stooges, Shske some action by Flamin' Groovies, Some people by Yard Trauma and.......Pretty vacant of course :):)
  • Nico from Amstelveen, NetherlandsThere is one simple reason why the fans in the late 70's loved this song. Just listen to Johnny Rotten's phrasing of "...oh so pretty, ahh, and we're vacant".
    A friend of mine, having attended a Sex Pistols concert in those days, told me that the audience enjoyed very much singing along the refrain, loudly emphasizing the last syllable, clearly pronouncing a 'u' instead of an 'a'.
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