Paroles de You can't do me

Madeleine Peyroux

pochette album You can't do me
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Date de parution : 25/02/2009

Durée : 0:05:04

Style : Vocal



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You can't do me, you can't do me, you can't do me the way you did before ?
You can't do me, you can't do me, you can't do me the way you did before ?
'cause when you do, and when you do, 'cause when you do, you know i get so blue!
When you do, and when you do, 'cause when you do, you know i get so blue and i go
Down like a deep sea diver, out like a coltrane tenor-man,
Lost like a chinese war baby ? gone, gone, gone!
Blewed like a mississippi sharecropper, screwed like a high-school cheerleader,
Tattooed like a popeyed sailorman ? gone, gone, gone!

I should have been, i should have been, i should have been a pair of ragged claws.
I should have been, i should have been, i should have been a pair of ragged claws.
And for a while, for just a while, for a good long while you'd see me smile, smile, smile
I'd crawl the seas on my bony knees, no apologies for my brave new style. i wouldn't go
Bust like an internet millionaire, boom like a lebanese belly-dancer,
Bang like a new year's firecracker ? gone, gone, gone! i wouldn't get
Bent like a rattan rockin' chair, blanked like a last place also ran,
Burned like an arkansas griddlecake ? gone, gone, gone!

I should have been, i should have been, i should have been a pair of ragged claws.
And if i was, if i was, if i was then i'd complain no more.
And for a while, for just a while, for a good long while you'd see me smile, smile, smile.
I'd crawl the seas, on my bony knees, no apologies for my brave new style.
I wouldn't get ?

Wrecked like a rebel on a racetrack, jacked like a '51 cadillac,
Macked like a bunny in a mansion ? gone, gone, gone!
Spitooned like an alabama 'backy wad, harpooned in a melville sailor yard,
Cartooned like a charlie brown christmas card ? gone, gone, gone!

Schooled like a milk money bully whip, sued like a teenage downloader,
Unglued like a bull in a china shop ? gone, gone, gone!
Cranked like a speed freak high-roller, yanked like a little league ball swatter,
Spanked like a fly on a bar counter ? gone, gone, gone!

Duked like a pistol whipped card swapper, rebuked like a bible belt border crosser
Juked like a payola chart topper ? gone, gone, gone!

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