Lagu bergenre rock/alternative tersebut dirilis pada 1984 melalui label Rough Trade Records.
“Pretty Girls Make Graves” muncul dalam album studio pertama mereka yang bertajuk The Smiths.
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Pretty Girls Make Graves” dari The Smiths.
Bm F#m D A
Upon the sand, upon the bay
Bm F#m D A
"There is a quick and easy way" you say
Bm
Before you illustrate
F#m D A
I'd rather state:
Bm F#m D
"I'm not the man you think I am
A Bm F#m D A
I'm not the man you think I am"
Bm F#m D A
And Sorrow's native son
Bm F#m D A
He will not smile for anyone
Bm F#m D A
And Pretty Girls Make Graves
C#m A C#m A C#m Ab
Oh...
Bm F#m D
End of the pier, end of the bay
A Bm F#m D A
You tug my arm, and say: "Give in to lust,
Bm F#m D
Give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll
A D
Soon be dust... "
Bm F#m D
Oh, I'm not the man you think I am
A Bm F#m D A
I'm not the man you think I am
Bm F#m D A
And Sorrow's native son
Bm F#m D A
He will not rise for anyone
Bm F#m D A
And Pretty Girls Make Graves
C#m A C#m A C#m Ab
Oh...
Bm F#m D
I could have been wild and I could have
A
Been free
Bm F#m D
But Nature played this trick on me
A Bm
She wants it Now
F#m
And she will not wait
D
But she's too rough
A
And I'm too delicate
Bm F#m
Then, on the sand
D A Bm
Another man, he takes her hand
F#m D A
A smile lights up her stupid face
Bm F#m
(and well, it would)
D A
I lost my faith in Womanhood
Bm F#m
I lost my faith in Womanhood
D A
I lost my faith...
C#m A C#m A C#m Ab
Oh...
Hand in glove...
The sun shines out of our behinds...
Oh...
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