Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women lyrics

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Deborah was a Catholic girl,<br />

she held out to the bitter end.<br />

Carla was a different type,<br />

she's the one who put it in.<br />

Mary was a black girl,<br />

and I was afraid of a girl like that.<br />

Susan painted pictures sitting down<br />

****like the Buddha sat.****<br />

<br />

Reno was an aimless girl, --should be-- Reno was a nameless girl<br />

a geographic memory.<br />

Cathy was a Jesus-freak,<br />

she liked that kind of misery.<br />

Vicky had this special way<br />

of turning sex into a song.<br />

****Kamala who couldn't sing,****<br />

kept the beat and kept it strong.<br />

<br />

Xylla was an archetype,<br />

the voodoo queen the queen of rap.<br />

Joan thought men were second best<br />

to masturbating in the bath.<br />

Sherri was a feminist,<br />

she really had that gift of gab.<br />

Kathleen's point of view was this:<br />

take whatever you can grab.<br />

<br />

Seattle was another girl<br />

who left her mark upon the map.<br />

Karen liked to tie me up,<br />

and left me hanging by a strap.<br />

Jeannie had this nightclub walk<br />

that made grown men feel underage.<br />

Mary Ellen who had a son<br />

said "I must go," but finally stayed.<br />

<br />

Gloria the last taboo<br />

was shattered by her tongue one night.<br />

Mimi brought the taboo back<br />

and held it up before the light.<br />

Marilyn who knew no shame,<br />

was never ever satisfied.<br />

Julie came and went so fast,<br />

she didn't even say good-bye.<br />

<br />

Well Rhonda had a house in Venice,<br />

lived on brown rice and cocaine.<br />

Patty had a house in Houston,<br />

shot cough syrup in her veins.<br />

Linda thought her life was empty,<br />

filled it up with alcohol.<br />

Katherine was much too pretty,<br />

she didn't do that shit at all.<br />

<br />

Uh-uh. Not Katherine.<br />

<br />

Pauline thought that love was simple,<br />

turn it on and turn it off.<br />

Jean-Marie was complicated,<br />

like some French film-maker's plot.<br />

Gina was the perfect lady,<br />

always kept her stockings straight.<br />

Jackie was a rich punk-rocker,<br />

silver spoon and a paper plate.<br />

<br />

Sarah was a modern dancer,<br />

lean pristine transparency.<br />

Janet wrote bad poetry<br />

in a crazy kind of urgency.<br />

Tanya Turkish liked to fuck<br />

while wearing leather biker boots.<br />

Brenda's strange obsession<br />

****was for certain vegetables and fruit.****<br />

<br />

****Roweena was an artist's daughter,****<br />

the deeper image shook her up.<br />

Dee-dee's mother left her father,<br />

took his money and his truck.<br />

Debbie-Rae had no such problems,<br />

perfect Norman Rockwell home.<br />

Nina sixteen had a baby,<br />

left her parents lived alone.<br />

Bobbie joined a new-wave band,<br />

and changed her name to Bobbie-sox.<br />

Eloise who played guitar,<br />

sang songs about whales and cops.<br />

Terri didn't give a shit,<br />

****was just a nihilist.****<br />

Ronnie was much more my style,<br />

she wrote songs just like this.<br />

Jezebel went forty days<br />

drinking nothing but Perrier.<br />

Dinah drove her Chevrolet<br />

into the San Francisco bay.<br />

Judy came from Ohio,<br />

she's a Scientologist.<br />

****Amiranta here's a kiss,****<br />

I chose you to end this list.<br />

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Eighty-eight lines about forty-four women.