Tattooed Love Boys

The Pretenders · The Best Of The Pretenders 2009 + Break Up The Concrete [2011]

The mid-twenty joys

Around a heart that's black and blue.

Tattooed love boys,

I tore my knees up getting to you

'Cause I needed

To find out what the thing was for

Been reading,

Man the time came to explore.



I went apewire

'Cause I thought

I kinda liked it.

Little tease.

But I didn't mean it.

But you mess with the good doll, honey you gotta pay.

Yeah.



A good time

Was guaranteed for one and all.

The tattoos

Target practice in the hall

While waiting

For their number to get called out.

I, I, I, I found out what the wait was about.



I was a good time.

Yeah.

I got pretty good

At changing tires

Upstairs, bro.

I shot my mouth off and you showed me what that hole was for.



Now I see you

All impressed and half undressed.

You got paint stick

All over the scars and lumps and bumps.

Tattooed love boys

Have got you where I used to lay.

Well ha ha, too bad

But you...know...what they say,

"Stop sniveling'

"You're gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man."

Oh but the prestige and the glory.

Another human interest story.

You...are...that.