All You Pretty People

(These are song lyrics from the alt-rock band Echo of a Sundial, a relatively popular early 90’s group hailing from a suburb of Seattle in the United States of My Head. All song lyrics - unless otherwise noted - are credited to lead vocalist Jeremy Whitfield with occasional input from his band mates)


Tuxedo union suits
Carbonation soothes the mood
in disguise

Diamond blue in their eyes
Perfect Cleavage smiles lies
of paradise

Tell me
Who cut you into
this television fool
I find
locked in the static snowing
Hollywood cell
stuck in a technicolor
studio hell

Smile and wave
Lost and depraved
Who will save you...?

*
And all you pretty people
shine like diamonds in the night
All you pretty people
dying in the light
dying in the light
dying in the light...
*

(We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to schedule more programming to make you most regular)

Gimme gimme gimme
All your plastic harmony
Gimme gimme gimme
All your grinning jealousy
Gimme gimme gimme
All the high school rage
you can find...

(You are beautiful!)
Shake...
(You are divine!)
Shake...
(You are one of us!)
Shake...
(You are one of mine!)
Shake
All your dreams of a unity (away!)
All your dreams of a pretty scene (away!)
All your needs and your pretty please
Away...!

All you pretty people
All you pretty people
All you pretty people
shine too bright...

All you pretty people
All you pretty people
All you pretty people
Make me love the night...

All you pretty people
All you pretty people
All you pretty people
so justified...

All you pretty people
All you pretty people
All you pretty people
might be right...

You might be right...
We might all just be
dying in the light...


(Jeremy Whitfield, album: Cross Your Eyes, 1991)