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Artist/Band: Graham Parker
Lyrics for Song: Cheap Chipped Black Nails
Lyrics for Album: Deepcut To Nowhere [2001]



Now that you're back in town

You look around at everything

Well, it could be anywhere on earth



Tryin' to count your change

Inside the Asian store

But you can't figure what it's worth



And she stands there like a specter

On the corner of the street

And you know you can't expect her

To be subtle or discreet, no, no, no and



Her cheap chipped black nails

Scratch the surface off a future

That just left you in the past



Her cheap chipped black nails

Pick the threads out of a suture

That was holdin' your life fast



Her cheap chipped black nails

Her cheap chipped black nails



She's got the bulldog tamed

Docile and subservient

And now it doesn't make a fuss



She runs with these sparky kids

Who talk into their mobile phones

Well, there must be so much to discuss



And you remember where you came from

But you don't know where it's gone

And you cannot find a name on

The street where you came from, no, no, no and



Her cheap chipped black nails

Show a wanton skill on the game tables

The pinball and the pool



Her cheap chipped black nails

Scratch the surface off an England

That has made her hard and cruel



Her cheap chipped black nails



And you remember where you came from

But you don't recognize, don't recognize it now

And you can't expect her mercy

Well, that much she won't allow, no, no, no and



Her cheap chipped black nails

Scratch the surface off a future

That just left you, left you in the past



Her cheap chipped black nails

Pick the threads out of a suture

That was holdin' your life fast



Her cheap chipped black nails

Her cheap chipped black nails


Album Lyrics: Deepcut To Nowhere [2001]


Graham Parker
"Deepcut To Nowhere [2001]"


1. Cheap Chipped Black Nails
2. Dark Days
3. Depend On Me
4. I'll Never Play Jacksonville Again