The Girl with the Shoulderblade Tattoo
There she goes
The girl with the funny nose
That's always buried in a book
You haven't given her that second look
And you say
A girl has got to have that certain sway
The kind that makes you kind of weak
You're looking for the sunshine on top of the dark mystique
And so you do what you gotta do
You make an exception to that rule,
Just like you did for the girl with the shoulderblade tattoo
When you see her out
Driving in her foreign car
Don't be fooled into thinking the distance is much too far
You'll see a Saturn[1] is something you can do without
When you do what you gotta do
You make an exception to that rule
Just like you did for the girl with the shoulderblade tattoo
And it isn't fair
You didn't mean to meet him there
With the bartender looking on
But he approached you with that awkward boyish charm
And so you did what you had to do
You made an exception to that rule,
Just like you did for the boy who howled at the moon
Maybe she don't watch your favorite TV show... yet
Maybe you don't read her favorite author... yet
Perhaps you didn't get the memo
That smart is the new blonde[2]
Brown is the new blue
And lonely is the current you
And so you do what you gotta do
You make an exception to that rule,
Just like you did for the girl with the shoulderblade tattoo
In fact, Saturn was an odd hybrid - a US-manufactured car that tried to compete with imports. ↩︎
The record will show that, while this song was written before Orange is the New Black was, it was long after the X is the new Y snowclone became a meme. ↩︎