Break Up The Concrete

Pretenders Break Up The Concrete Lyrics
1.Boots Of Chinese Plastic

Lyricist:Christine Hynde

One, two, three, four

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo Buddha, please
Can you help a little peasant that's begging on her knees
Illusion fills my head like an empty can
Spent a million lifetimes loving the same man

Every drop that run through the vein
Always makes it's way back to the heart again
And by the way you look fantastic
In your boots of Chinese plastic

Hare Krishna, Hare Rama too
Govinda, I am still in love with You
I see you in the birds and in the trees
That's why they call me Krishna Mayee

Every drop that run through the vein
Always makes it's way back to the heart again
And by the way you look fantastic
In your boots of Chinese plastic

Hofra told us we should tolerate
The people and the things that make me wanna hate
Oh, have a little mixed mercy on me
This seasoned beauty in this human pageantry

Jesus Christ came down here as a living man
If He can live a life of virtue then I hope I can
Unto others as you would have a turn
Back here and repeat until you learn, learn, learn

Every drop that run through the vein
Always makes it's way back to the heart again
And every dog that lived his life on a chain
Knows what it's like waiting for nothing
And by the way you look fantastic
In your boots of Chinese plastic


2.The Nothing Maker

Lyricist:Chrissie Hynde

He doesn't make shoes or design a new shirt
Or take photographs but no one gets hurts
And he doesn't look trendy like guys in magazines
You won't see him at parties, he's not the face behind the scene

He makes nothing
He's the nothing maker
He's the maker of nothing
He's the nothing maker

And he doesn't paint pictures or write poetry
Or act on a stage for others to see
And he don't expect much Santa Claus knows
'Cause he doesn't make list of toys and new clothes

He makes nothing
He's the nothing maker
He's the maker of nothing
He's the nothing maker

Everyone's chasing a reason to live
Mostly they take more than they give
The succeeder justifies why he needs more than the rest
He believes his own lies and thinks he's the best

My guy doesn't make movies to suit an audience's whim
He lives by a code known only to him
And he doesn't make money to buy watches and cars
'Cause there's no time and no place to go
For a man who has nothing to show

He makes nothing
He's the nothing maker
He's the maker of nothing
He's the nothing maker


3.Don't Lose Faith In Me

Lyricist:Christine Hynde

Don't lose faith in me
Don't lose faith in me
If you lose faith in me
You lose faith in us

Don't lose harmony
Don't lose harmony
If you lose harmony
You won't need me

Look at me
Can you see how I'm trying?
Only you can see me crying
Look at me
These tears ain't lying

One pays the butcher
One pays the thief
I'm looking for you darling
Show me some relief

Artist on the cover
Is a phony and a crook
I'm looking for you, lover
Show me where to look

Ooh, don't lose faith in me
Please don't lose faith in me
If you lose faith in me
You lose faith in us


4.Don't Cut Your Hair

Don't cut your hair
Don't cut your hair
Don't cut your hair
Don't cut your hair
Don't cut your hair
Whatever you do!

the Copacabana
Woh, the monkey
Pornstar

Don't ya

Whatever you do!
races
elderly faces
even for a minute
I'll give you my shelter and everything that's in it

Don't ya

Yeah!

Don't cut it
Don't chop it
It's like the bomb if you got it don't drop it

If you got a man then go ahead and flaunt it
Any man is lying if he says he doesn't want it
Any man is lying if he says he doesn't want it

From Miami to the Sunset Strip

Don't cut your hair
Don't cut your hair
Don't cut your hair
Whatever you do!


5.Loves A Mystery

Lyricist:Christine Hynde

Lovers of today unlike lovers of the past
They used to find a way to get a love affair to last
I saw him leaving, that's is all I had to see
If seeing is believing then

Love's a mystery, it's a mystery
It'll rise without a warning leaving evidence and clues
Making headlines in the morning then it's history
Love's a mystery but I'll do it again, I'll do it again

Lovers of today are becoming too adversed
Get the feeling you are on stage badly unrehearsed
Had the moves done so perfectly
I guess all that proves is

Love's a mystery, it's a mystery
It'll rise without a warning making leaving evidence and clues
Making headlines in the morning then it's history
Love's a mystery but I'll do it again, I'll do it again

The multiple offender should learn from his mistakes
I am ready to surrender if that's what it takes
We did our time still in custody
If loving is a crime

Love's a mystery but I'll do it again, I'll do it again
It'll rise without a warning leaving evidence and clues
It headlines in the morning then it's history
Love's a mystery, love's a mystery


6.The Last Ride

Lyricist:Christine Hynde

I made my bed but I couldn't sleep in it
With the man in red tracking me minute by minute
Running like a horse, always looking behind me
But of course he would always find me

Hey, buddy, hey, friend, my pal, my brother
We take shelter in each other
I'll keep it simple, you keep it true
I owe my last ride to you

Heaven and hell ride in tandem
I used to mix them up at random
I spent my youth on a reckless futile race
Where love and truth could never place

Hey, buddy, hey, friend, my pal, my brother
We take shelter in each other
I'll keep it simple, you keep it true
I owe my last ride to you

After all nobody can save
The mortal body from the grave
Who can arrest the soul's sad journey in its plight?
One more day to get it right

I decided to stop dying
No more cheatin' no more lyin'
What kind of club opens its gates to sinners like me?
And bids them forth unto eternity

Hey, buddy, hey, friend, my pal, my brother
We take shelter in each other
I'll keep it simple, you keep it true
I owe the last ride to you

Under the buckeye trees
Where the rubber city grew
I owe the last ride to you


7.Almost Perfect

Lyricist:Christine Hynde

Narcissistic, anorexic, so unstuck but so pretty
I love you
Don't ever change

Don't change good champagne for some sad idiot and then complain
That's good advice
But a lady who has two black eyes is not the best one to advise
She's already been told twice

Don't ever change, why, oh why, oh why, oh
Would you ever change, oh, oh, oh
Please don't ever change, you're almost perfect
You're almost perfect, you're almost perfect

Paranoiac drug addicted, pornographically afflicted
Sleep with me
Two legs a cock, a woman's soul, strange how this lady can
control
Ooh, show them to me

You can hardly see this woman only wants you for your money
You who have not
Come inside my hive where bees are busy making honey
Ooh, love is about

Don't ever change, why, oh why, oh why, oh
Would you ever change, oh, oh, oh
Please don't ever change, you're almost perfect
You're almost perfect, you're almost perfect

One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three
Half of half and half of half and half of half and half of that

Artistic repetitious, people-phobically suspicious
With an over sized schlong
Unemployable illegal, you're a whole film by Don Siegel
Ooh, write me a song

Go away and blow away and fade away and the next day
You're back in the line
If love is leaving everything for homelessness and nothing
Ooh, you'll be just fine

Don't ever change, why, oh why, oh why, oh
Would you ever change, the best part of Ohio
Please don't ever change, you're almost perfect
You're almost perfect, you're almost perfect


8.You Didn't Have To

Lyricist:Chrissie Hynde

Thank you boy for the beautiful flower
Thank you boy for the stars in your eyes
Thank you boy for giving me your finest hours
What a surprise?

You didn't have to

Thank you boy for the time that we wasted
Thank you boy for the things that you said
Thank you boy for every strange thought that I tasted
You're off your head

You didn't have to

And hearing my story from your occupied territory

Thank you boy for the sound of your voices
Like a hammer or a drill
Thank you boy for giving me no choices
You know I will

You didn't have to


9.Rosalee

Lyricist:Jr., Robert Joseph Kidney

Rosalee
Where you been so long?
Rosalee, Rosalee
Where you been so long?
When you smile at me
All the lights come on
(Stop)

Rosalee, Rosalee
Come and dance with me again
Rosalee, Rosalee
Come and dance with me again
You're my one true love
You're my oldest friend

It don't matter now
Who was right and who was wrong
It don't matter now
Who was right and who was wrong
'Cause you're here with me
I'm back where I belong

Rosa, come out here
In the summer night
Can you see out there
Almost out of sight?
Your lovin' calls to me
Like that far distant light, yeah

Ooh Rosa
Again


10.Break Up The Concrete

Lyricist:Christine Hynde

There was a red brick road where I grew up on
And a pretty stone wall round a fragrant lawn
Fish in the pond that sparkled in the dawn
But it ain't no more, it's all gone, gone, gone

Ram it, cram it, grand slam it, break up the concrete
Prod it, sod it, metal rod it, break up the concrete
Thwak it, crack it, line back it, break up the concrete
Shake it, bake it, earthquake it, break up the concrete
Break up the concrete, break up the concrete

And the depot over there, right next to the tracks
That the slaves put down while breaking their backs
But those Texas zoo, no one would ever get into a carriage
Or anything that might lead to an interracial marriage

Ram it, cram it, grand slam it, break up the concrete
Prod it, sod it, metal rod it, break up the concrete
Thwak it, crack it, line back it, break up the concrete
Shake it, bake it, earthquake it, break up the concrete
Break up the concrete, break up the concrete

Now don't tell me it's progress 'cause that's just a lie
And don't even try to come with an excuse, why?
We were so busy worrying about them dropping the bomb
We didn't notice where our enemy was really coming from
Hey boys, c'mon let's do it

Ram it, cram it, grand slam it, break up the concrete
Prod it, sod it, metal rod it, break up the concrete
Shake it, bake it, earthquake it, break up the concrete
Ram it, slam it, just cram it, break up the concrete

One more time
Break up the concrete, break up the concrete
Now he who laid it come back here and raid it
Break up the concrete, break up the concrete
Break up the concrete, break up the concrete
Break up the concrete