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The Pretenders
The Pretenders


Background information
Origin Hereford, England
Genre(s) Alternative Rock
New Wave
Punk Rock
Years active 1978—present
Label(s) Sire Records
Website Website
Members
Chrissie Hynde
Martin Chambers
James Walbourne
Nick Wilkinson
Eric Heywood
Former members
Johnny Marr
Andy Rourke
James Honeyman-Scott
Pete Farndon
Robbie McIntosh
Malcolm Foster
T. M. Stevens
Blair Cunningham
Bernie Worrell
Adam Seymour
Andy Hobson
Adam Martin



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The Pretenders Album


Packed! (05/22/1990)
05/22/1990
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Let me stay
One more day
It would mean so much to me
I won't make a sound
I'll just hang around
I'll sit where the last one sat
But oh no
I'd never do that

Take my mouth as far as you can see
It stretches father than I care to think
Put me out of my misery
If I could keep it shut
I wouldn't be in this rut
With less chance than a laboratory rat
Oh no
I'd never do that

You're a master of illusion
You say you do - but you don't
You think I will - I know I won't

When I see you sitting there
It sends a shock right through me
I never thought an ordinary chair
Could have such poetry
I don't deserve your time
I haven't got the tact
I live above my means in fact
Oh no
I'd never do that

I'd never do that
I'd never do that
I'd never do that

. . .


Empty me
Like a dustman rids a rubbish bin
Fill me up with glimpses of you
And let the music begin
Oh oh oh
Take me to the altar

Let's make a pact
One we'll never take back
Let me prove that I'm true
Let's make a pact

Alter me
The change could only do me good
Other have tried to and failed
I wish that somebody could
Oh oh oh
Do what no one can do

Let's make a pact
One we'll never take back
Let me prove that I'm true
Let's make a pact

Take me to the world and let me wonder at the view
Set me off in motion and let me dance
After 20 years of doubt and then a week with you
I'm ready baby - follow thorugh!

Cover me in dirt
And leave me to the wind and the rain
If I should ever hurt
The one who made me human again
Oh oh oh
Take me to the altar

Let's make a pact
One we'll never take back
Let me prove that I'm true
Let's make a pact

Let's make a pact
One we'll never take back
Let me prove that I'm true
Let's make a pact

. . .


They're just millionaires
They got the money, but who cares?
They'll never be like you and me
Cause money can't buy poverty
They think they govern our affairs
- They're just millionaires!

When they pass us in their cars
They look at us like we're from Mars
Those distant eyes look sympathetic
We slash their tyres cause we're pathetic
And we get paid for the repairs
By the millionaires!

They're just millionaires
They got the money
They got the money yeah!
They're just millionaires
They got the money child
They got the money yeah!
They're just millionaires
They got the money child
They got the money child yeah!

If they'd just leave us in their will
We'd all be dressed to kill
- And burn our polyester flares
With the millionaires!

. . .


Waterfall
Nothing can harm me at all
My worries seem so very small
With my waterfall

I can see
My rainbow
Calling me
Through the mysteries
Of my waterfall

Some people say
Daydreams are for all the
lazy minded fools
With nothing else to do
So let them laugh
Laugh at me
So just as long as I have you
To see me through
I have nothing to lose
Long as I have you

Waterfall
Don't ever change you ways
For with me
For a million years
You're my waterfall

. . .



No guarantee
Is what i'm getting today
Appetite's so rampant
And they're demanding money
Everybody wants a good time
Yeah-yeah-yeah
And wild terms to agree
No credit taken
Oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa whoa
No guarantee


No guarantee
When we kiss
Your lips are tempting
Well baby listen to this
Gotta have some action
Yeah-yeah-yeah
You know i got to be free
Contracts are binding
Oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa whoa
No guarantee


Guarantee my baby
Guarantee my love


Guarantee me for a month of good sundays
Promise me every single one'll be fun-days
Give me a dime for every party revolution
Launder my debts in paragorical solution
Even the boss has been slandered and slagged
Now he's sitting in the alley
With a bottle in a paper bag


No guarantee
When we play
Turn the house lights up bob
- fellas look over dey!
This hall is empty
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Up to 17b
But what's depressing
Oh oh oh whoa whoa whoa whoa
No guarantee


Guarantee me
Guarantee baby
Guarantee my love
Oh guarantee when you're coming in me
You got a rubber on baby
Guarantee when i love you for free
I`m gonna pay one day
Oh guarantee
When you sock it to me
When you punch it to me
When you hook it to me
When you knock it to me
When you talk it to me
You guarantee my love
Oh!


. . .


When the days
are getting longer
and the people
come out on the streets at night
I'll be among
the starry eyes
I'll be among
the wishful sighs
I'll be among
the fools, forever fantasizing

When will I see you?
summertime would be perfect
When will I see you?
could be a long summertime
When will I see you?
endless nights of love could be ours
When will I see you?

When the nights
are getting warmer
and the dawn comes in on the wings of a song
I'll be among
the hopeful few
I'll be among
the morning dew
I'll be among
everything new

When will I see you?
summertime would be perfect
When will I see you?
there'll be no-one around
When will I see you?
endless nights of love could be ours
When will I see you?

Demand the impossible!
everyone will be free
We'll walk down the Avenue
Openly - openly

When the days
are getting longer
and the people
come out on the streets at night
I'll be the one
who knows your name
I'll be the one
who plays the game
I'll be the one
again and again and again
again and again and again, asking

When will I see you?
summertime would be just perfect
When will I see you?
could be a long summertime
When will I see you?
endless nights of love could be ours
When will I see you?

Demand the impossible!
Everyone will be free

. . .


Everybody chokes
When they see someone cut down in their prime
It may not show when you look at me
But I know I'm in mine
I'm potent, baby, I'm potent
Dangerous to the naked eye
Rest your head on this bed of mother's pride
And find out why

Don't you wanna take me home?
Don't you wanna take me home?

Give me a sense of purpose
A real sense of purpose now
Give me a sense of purpose
A real sense of purpose now

Bully boys don't bother me
I purse my lips and they run away
Guys like you who are gentle and true
Don't come around here everyday
I'm potent, baby, I'm potent

Just one swing of me would get most guys smashed
But a drop of yours makes me stagger and swerve
I guess I'm outclassed

Everybody chokes
When they see someone cut down in their prime
Take this plea to your heart
- lift me in mine

Don't you wanna take me home?
Don't you wanna take me home?

Give me a sense of purpose
A real sense of purpose now
Give me a sense of purpose
A real sense of purpose now

Give me a sense of purpose
A real sense of purpose now
Give me a sense of purpose
A real sense of purpose now

. . .



Get to the heart
Baby, the heart of the city
Meet me in a fire fight
Of lusty boys in candlelight
Beat to the heart, baby the heart of the city
Veins pop and cry for more
And lick it off the killing floor


D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-d-downtown akron!


Move to the beat. baby the beat of the city
Rubber glove me when you love me
Promise me protection
Dance to the heat, baby the heat of the city
Glorify my oozing head
And raise me from the living dead


D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-d-downtown akron!


Downtown me - baby strip me
Chop me, adopt me, bend me like a rubber dolly
Downtown me - demolition me
Raise me, appraise me, the portage hotel and me
Downtown me - with a lobotomy
Take me to the cuyahoga valley and make a man of me


Get to the heart, baby the heart of the city
Say you love it when you shove it
Don't be sentimental
Move to the heart, baby - the heart of the city
This is where the future lies
Beneath the burning sulphur skies


D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-downtown c'mon
D-d-d-d-downtown akron!


. . .


How do I miss you?
How do I miss you?
when you're gone
when you're gone

You silly Welsh git
you were sold down the river
like a slave changing hands
from master to master
The leaves will turn brown
and fall to the ground
and another summer is gone
- Gone is the summer with you

How do I miss you?
How do I miss you?
when you're gone
when you're gone

It got so when I looked at you
I did it for a laugh
Now your laughter fills the room
when I'm trying to take a bath
When the chorus of the dawn
fills the valley with song
Baby what could be wrong?
- My heart is breaking in two
Oh

How do I miss you?

That's the way
the mighty they fall
Break their legs
and they don't stand so tall

Bundled up and trussed up were the goods to be delivered
I stood in the doorway
and cried and I shivered
I be walking down the street
to the carnival beat
but I'm dragging my feet
- Because I'm hopelessly blue
Oh

How do I miss you?
How do I miss you?
when you're gone
when you're gone
when you're gone
when you're gone

. . .



So much for banning the bomb
The president's wife is carrying a hand gun
If you want blood sports for fun now
They call me 'the hunter' - better run now
You hear a 'crack' in the distance baby
Your phoney mating calls' resistance maybe
Don't smile - we're gonna get you
We'll have your rifle off you too
Gimme a kiss
And hold a candle to this!


Foxy lady dressed to kill
You say you won't but you will
What's on your face and your breath mama?
You wear your glory or death mama
But liberation's on the way
Every dog's gonna have it's day
Pack up your rape racks and crush box out of hell
Farmer in the dell
Oh please i insist
Hold a candle to this!


Bring on the ecstasy!
And the bliss
Bring on my wedding day
And everybody's birthday
Blow up the abbatoir!
Detonate!
We're going home
Where the buffalo roam!


There's a new generation
From osaka, siam and saigon
The sailors mixed it on the shore
They were making love and making war
Well here's a present for the navy
Same meat -different gravy
Those chicks will find you - that's for sure
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - tell the people what she wore!
(you're american miss)
Hold a candle to this!


. . .



Look at me
High upon the hill
You could say
I'm on top of the world
Baby - i'm blue
All because of you
I can see this city
Crumble all around me
Press me to your chest
Block out the view
Oh, whoa whoa whoa


You made me
Some kind of criminal
You put me out-law
Because i loved you


In my time
One thing i've learned
If you play with fire
You get burned
Oh, baby, it's true
I got burned by you
I put everything i had
Into a bag
And trusted you to do
What you didn't do
Oh, whoa whoa whoa


You made me
Some kind of criminal
You put me out-law
Because l loved you


The first thing i think when i wake up
When can i see you?
The last thing i think when i'm drifting off
When will i see you?


Oh. look at me
I'm addicted still
At first i refused,
Now i just swallow the pill
Oh, baby, won't you
Fix me like you used to?
I could spend my time in hell
I might as well
Cause hell is where i'm bound to dwell
Without you
Oh, whoa whoa whoa


You made me
Some kind of criminal
You put me out-law
Because i loved you


. . .


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