Slit Skirts

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I was just thirty-four years old and I was still wandering in a haze
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I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were lost in a maze
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I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of divine right to the blues
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It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the front page sad news

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The incense burned away and the stench began to rise
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And lovers now estranged avoided catching each others' eyes

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And girls who lost their children cursed the men who fit the coil
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And men not fit for marriage took their refuge in the oil
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No-one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned
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From all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned...


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Slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts
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And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
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Can't pretend that growing older never hurts
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Knee-pants, Jeanie never wears those knee-pants
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We have to be so drunk to try a new dance
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So afraid of every little romance...

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Slit skirts, slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those
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Slit skirts, slit skirts, she wouldn't dare in those
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Slit skirts, slit skirts, wouldn't be seen dead in those slit skirts
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Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance?
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Why can't we drink it up true heart romance?
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Just need a brief new little romance...




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Let me tell you some more about myself, you know I'm sitting at home just now.
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The big events of the day have passed and the late TV shows have come on.
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I'm number one on the home team, but I still feel unfulfilled.
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A silent voice in a broken heart complains that I'm unskilled.

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And I know that when she thinks of me, she thinks of me as him.
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But unlike me she don't workout her frustrations in the gym.

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Recriminations fester and the past can never change
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A woman's expectations run from both ends of the range.
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Once she walked with untamed lovers face between her legs,
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Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg...


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Slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts
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And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
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Can't pretend that growing older never hurts
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Knee-pants, Jeanie never wears those knee-pants
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We have to be so drunk to try a new dance
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So afraid of every little romance...

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Slit skirts, slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those
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Slit skirts, slit skirts, she wouldn't dare in those
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Slit skirts, slit skirts, wouldn't be seen dead in those slit skirts
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Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance?
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Why can't we drink it up true heart romance?
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Just need a brief new little romance...


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Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance?
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Why can't we drink it up true heart romance?
                             G7
Just need a brief new little romance...