Platinum Blonde Lyrics - Graham Parker

Stuff comes down from the golden triangle 

On ferries from Denmark to Helsingborg 

The band strikes up but they're out of time 

On synthesiser and washboard 

Wooden tulips grow by the roadside 

Made in a factory in Jonjoping 

Fake glass baubles hang in the station 

Just like the passenger's imitation 

Then it hits you she was just the dregs 

All you wanna do now is break her legs 

Kick that brunette into a pond 

Replace her with a... 

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[Chorus] 

Platinum blonde (4x) 

There's a secret world that you cannot enter 

It's in the center of the darkest night 

She's waiting there with a set of works 

And a Swedish passport and something white 

She walks past but you can't form a whistle 

Even her lips look artificial 

You wanna follow her but you can't swallow 

Her act, it seems so superficial 

Now you've shed the old one like a worn out shoe 

It was all your fault but you blame her too 

You know its phony but at least it's new 

And it comes from a bottle like... 

[Chorus] 

[Repeat last part of Intro repeat with solo] 

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And in your heart there's a new addiction 

Another friction that you can't resolve 

She seemed alive but she is just a cipher 

An imaginary postcard that just dissolved 

Endless sunsets glow in the distance 

Painted by Picasso's assistants 

Perfect people travel in Volvos 

Into the sunsets into the distance 

You're just a passenger she's not a ticket 

A foreign stamp you've got to lick it 

Put it in the mail box 

Put it in the fail box 

You never seem to learn from the school of hard knocks 

Then she walks past and laughs at the pond 

You can't break a heart that doesn't respond, like... 

[Chorus]