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[Intro]

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N.C.
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night

[Verse 1]
             
So I call your

        
 name, cross m

y fingers
           
uncross the ot

      
hers, hesitate

.
             
Oh I don't thi

              
nk straight wi

              
th nothing to 

      
prove.
             
I don't wanna 

      
say I'm leavin

g
        
I'll stay unti

         
l the weekend.
             
And you can ta

              
ke all the thi

     
ngs;
  
the boxes and 

rings
        
and get going.
'Cause I've been waiting for...

[Hook]
             
All the pretty

           
 girls on a Sa

        
turday night.
             
Let it be, and

             
 come to me wi

            
th the look in

         
 your eyes.
             
Will you break

             
 and take all 

            
the words from

    
 my mouth?
             
I wish all the

             
 pretty girls 

            
were shaking m

  
e down.

[Verse 2]
             
So I call you 


out
             
Just to feel a

            
 little bit be

            
tter about mys

elf
            
I do, baby I d

          
o, I do, I do
            
Until their li

ps start to mo

ve,
          
and their frie

nds wanna talk

 music
             
I say "I've ne

             
ver heard the 


tune!"
             
But I have, I 

              
just hate the 


band
              
'cause they re

            
mind me of you

  
.
             
Every single n

          
ight ends up t

  
he same,
         
I don't say mu

             
ch at all, but

            
 I bring up yo

   
ur name.
           
(Over and over

   
 and over)
I think it's striking me out.

[Hook]
             
All the pretty

           
 girls on a Sa

        
turday night.
             
Let it be, and

             
 come to me wi

            
th the look in

         
 your eyes.
             
Will you break

             
 and take all 

            
the words from

    
 my mouth?
             
I wish all the

             
 pretty girls 

            
were shaking m

  
e down.

[Chorus]
        
But not you,
              
you still wear

             
 boots and you

            
r hair is too 

 
long
             
and then this 

             
one doesn't wa

              
nt to admit sh

            
e's fallen in 


love
             
Oh c'mon, oh c

             
'mon, what's a

       
 boy to do
             
When all the p

             
retty girls ca

            
n't measure to

 
 you.

[Solo]

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[Bridge]
             
I don't unders

       
tand your reas

ons
         
Please just st

           
ay over the we

ekend
          
You can't take

 all those thi

ngs
  
They define yo

u and me
      
everything we'

ve become,
You're all that I need
Please don't make me face my generation alone.

[Hook]
             
All the pretty

              
 girls on a Sa

      
turday night.
        
Let it be, and

              
 come to me wi

          
th the look in

    
 your eyes.
             
Will you break

             
 and take all 

            
the words from

    
 my mouth?
             
I wish all the

             
 pretty girls 

            
were shaking m

  
e down.

[Chorus]
        
But not you,
             
I feel your fa

            
ith is destroy

        
ing the world
             
and then this 

          
one never even

 understood
           
the 80s is ove

      
r and done
             
Oh c'mon, what

          
's a boy to do

,
             
when all the p

             
retty girls ca

            
n't measure to


 you 

[Outro]
             
All the pretty

           
 girls on a Sa

       
turday night.
             
All the pretty

           
 girls on a Sa

       
turday night.
             
All the pretty

           
 girls on a Sa

       
turday night.
             
All the pretty

           
 girls on a Sa

       
turday night