Album: Especially For You (1986)

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• She had hair like Jeannie Shrimpton back in 1965
  She had legs that never ended
  I was halfway paralyzed
  She was tall and cool and pretty and she dressed as black as coal
  If she asked me to I'd murder, I would gladly lose my soul
  
  Now I lie in bed and think of her
  Sometimes I even weep
  Then I dream of her behind the wall of sleep
  
  Well she held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band
  And she stood just like Bill Wyman
  Now I am her biggest fan
  Now I know I'm one of many who would like to be your friend
  And I've got to find a way to to let you know I'm not like them
  
  Now I lie in bed and think of her
  Sometimes I even weep
  Then I dream of her behind the wall of sleep
  
  Now I lie in bed and think of her
  Sometimes I even weep
  Then I dream of her behind the wall of sleep
  
  Got your number form a friend of mine who lives in your home town
  Called you up to have a drink
  Your roommate said you weren't around
  Now I know I'm one of many who would like to be your friend
  And I've just got to find a way to to let you know I'm not like them
  
  Now I lie in bed and think of her
  Sometimes I even weep
  Then I dream of her behind the wall of sleep
  Behind the wall of sleep
  Behind the wall of sleep
  Behind the wall of sleep Writer/s: Pat Dinizio
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Comments: 7

• AnonymousIt's about Kim Ernst of the Bristols
• Not Alwayspc from Simi Valley, CaPat gave interview to Forbes Magazine: We’d done a gig with The Bristols, four fabulous women who looked, sounded and dressed like Roger McGuinn’s The Byrds. Kim had black hair, really long: “She looked like Jeannie Shrimpton back in 1965, she had legs that never ended, I was halfway paralyzed. She was tall and cool and pretty, and she dressed as black as coal. If she asked me to I’d murder, I would gladly lose my soul.” Our first two hits were Blood And Roses, about suicide, and this one, "if you’d ask me to I’d murder" - very dark material [laughs].
• Ken from Philadelphia, PaVery bummed to hear about the death of Pat Dinizio today (12/13/2017). The Smithereens were went from a local phenomena in Central New Jersey to a national act while I was in college just up the road from Carteret, New Jersey. I saw them play several times before... and as... they broke nationally (in the mid 80s) and saw them once more in the mid 90s. "Especially for You" was one of the last vinyl albums I ever bought and I wore that f--ker out, especially this song. People like to boil down 80s music into an amalgam of "new wave", early rap and MTV-driven dance pop. This band... and especially this song... proves that to be, at best, an oversimplification and, at worst, an outright lie.
• George from UsaThe song was written by Pat Dinuzio for a bass player of an all girls group called the Bristols out of Boston whom he met while making an album there.
• Annabella from Middle Of NowhereThe model mentioned, Jean Shrimpton, one of her nicknames was "The Shrimp".
• John from Beltsville, MdSome of the coolest lyrics from one of the best songs of the 80s!
• Jim from Long Beach, CaThis song is very powerful and It reminds me of college about this goth chick I was in love with at the time. I still dream of her behind the wall of sleep...

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