Get Young was released by P&N in 2008. It is their second album, & their first full album made after moving from Vermont to Boston in 2007. It marks a change in P&N's iconic style, shifting from the more surf-rock inspired sound of Pink & Blue to whatever you would classify this as.
This album came with a promotional website, which remains sadly unarchived, though I am working with the band to get it back up & running. Patience, my friends :)
At the time of this album, the members of Pretty & Nice were Holden Lewis, Jeremy Mendicino & Bobby Landry.
The lyrics for this release were very kindly sent to me by Jeremy of the band. Thank you, J!
Up to your tricks again
You wait
In your mischievous way
The Alligator and the Crocodile don't care
That we get groovy on the weekend
I've got this magic wand
And i've got spot lights shining down and down
This fancy ketchup doesn't make me a debutante
Oh what a mighty jaw!
Oh what a beast you are, Piranha!
Oh what a mighty jaw!
Out of my head in love!
Ooooooohh!!
Feed feed feed you little lazy things
The snails that you're eating don't hang with a fast crowd
You know that i can't afford what i need
Without a payment plan
Without losing a hand!
So drop your Southern Drawl
And get your sharks blood pumping down and down
Lean over tell me i'm the next to go
Oh what a mighty jaw...
The Japanese are singing Tora Tora Tora!
But I don’t understand the seaweed and the sand
The girls are singing Let’s Go On A Trip
The boys won’t give no lip if we travel on a ship
The Japanese are singing Tora Tora Tora!
But I don’t understand the seaweed and the sand
The clever tigers might just blame it on
The sentimental shark
We don’t go out in the dark
But if the lights go out
The flaps go down
The shells are dropped
The engine stops
But if the lights go out
You look about
The shelter’s gone
Atomic Bomb
You want to go out at night
But the place you go is a terrible fright
In the black, in the blue
It’s a chemical flu!
Ohhhh!!
Tora Tora Tora!
But I don’t understand the seaweed and the sand
The boys are shipping bombs across the sea
And that’s ok by me
As long as I don’t see
But if the lights go out
The flaps go down
The shells are dropped
You watch the clock
But if the lights go out
You look about
The shelter’s gone
The Atom Bomb!
Ah Ah AH!!
Tora Tora Tora!
But I don’t understand the seaweed and the sand
The girls are singing Tora Tora Tora!
But I don’t understand the seaweed and the sand
The seaweed and the sand
Wake up with the sun on the prowl
Dirty words in your mouth
Through the linens you can hear it call
Numbers on the wall...
Got a slinky little top
Got a wallet full of rubber and bills
Es un tarjeta de Experience
Call this number for some fun!
Fly away you pixies
Ohhh ohhh
Tell them not to diss me
Ohhhhh ohhhhh ohhhhhhhh
Rebel girls with plastic pearls make their move on the world
With contraceptives and rubber sheets!
Grabbin' at your gun
Wash the grease off
Stop taking their calls
Scratch their names off the wall
Take some violent ingredients
And put 'em in the pot
Fly away you pixies
Ohhh ohhh
How you love to trick me
Ohhhhh ohhhhh ohhhhhhhh
Run run run i can't slow down
I can't stop, you're so tropical
Shake shake shake your tassels 'round
S-somethin' snapped now i can't shut my mouth
Ba ba ba ba ba ba burnin' up up
Someone's gotta shut me off
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh... Shut me up
Fly away you pixies
Ohhh ohhh
How you love to trick me
Ohhh ohhh
Fly away you pixies
Ohhh ohhh
Why won't you kiss meeeee
Ohhhhh ohhhhh ohhhhhhhh
Ohhhhhhhaaahhh!H!H!!
Sleep won't come when you can't see
Separate beds, separate heads
Hide your face and your fancy
Peekaboo girl
Sword and stone
Kodachrome
Flying home on your feathers
Guarding your leisures
Cupcake costumes and candy
Sugar delights, frosted nights
Is that something that can be?
Simple is best
I'm a pest in armor blessed
You're the princess
I know travel is costly
Letters alone kept me home
I know your face and your fancy
Peekaboo girl
Fly along
Fly alone
Build a new home of wires
Tend to your fires
Watch them grow...
Watch them grow...
All pretty shells
Sing like bells
Southern sells
Ohhhh!
Left on the sun
Sold all your guns
All but one
Ohhhh!
I had to get away
Or so you say
So I went to the sun
But now I tell you
Life on the sun
Ain’t much fun when you’re the only one
Left on the street
Sold like meat
Let’s just eat
Ohhhh!
Don’t you know that life don’t work like nuts and bolts
You know life don’t work like nuts and bolts
No, life don’t work like nuts and bolts, you know
All pretty shells
Chime like bells
When you set your sails screaming No No No No!
Trapped on the sun
Sold all my guns
All but one…
Roaming the sun
There’s no one to gossip
So I wander out ‘til my toes turn to dust
Arms turn to ash and my heart gets to feeling young
I turn to helium
Ohhhhh! When we’re up here we’re feeling young!
We turn to helium! Oh ohhhhh!
Ohhhhh! When we’re up here we’re feeling young!
We turn to helium!
I’ve been looking at your pale white face
And every pore makes me think about the atom bomb
I’ve been walking like a tourist in space
Waking up really late, I put my sunglasses on
My muscles fail
And all the lottery tips that I give get me jailed
This is the ugliest place that I have ever been…
Moving from the Mexican sun
Attending parties in London underwater
A life made of travel and fun and maybe she wasn’t the one
But she’s your daughter…
But she’s your daughter!
(I see your daughter!)
The birds and the squirrels all sing
But you don’t know what they say, you just buy girls pretty things
It’s not the way that you shake, it’s just the way that you think
Don’t you think
If you’re feeling bland, if you wanna plan a getaway
This is where you wanna go
Hideaway Tokyo!
Forget your palms, you can keep your paws all over the blondes on the patio!
Hideaway Tokyo
Forget the man with the mannequin hand and all of his promises of polio
On the radio the dogs are all barking
But the train’s already pulled out
Up atop the highest tower
Tie a rope, an anchor from
Cast a line, you cast a shadow
Tie me up and pull me through
La la la la la la laa!
Single Y Chromosome.
Kiss a cheek
A cheap maneuver
London towne
I move too slow
Let your hair down to your shoulders
Slit your wrists and let’s get nice!
La la la la la let down
Single Y Chromosome.
Grab your nets and let’s go hunting in the sky
Trapping insects with wings although we know that they’ll die
Riding hot air balloons, full of hot air ‘cause they lie
And at the end of the day
Flowers fall from the sky!
They fall from up high!
The flowers fall from the sky!
They fall from up high!
Wrap a gift I want to give
A doe, a deer
Oh my, I fear I’ve lost my mind
I look inside
Oh William, you’re mine
Grab your nets and place your bets
A fly for me
A finder’s fee
So what, you’re blind
You look just fine
Oh William, you’re mine
The reds won’t suffer your lust for disability, no.
They’ve come to claim you
To rearrange your…
Left eye follows the right eye leading you on
Your business venture
For the Olympic spender
Left of center, you’re right
So clever!
Contraptions never fail!
Sail to live in the south
Where the weather’s better, you work with pleasure
Coal and steaming machines, improper, lose traction without fail
The clockwork’s gonna wear out
So you build it better
How fascinating your solar energy…
Your new equation
It’s one for the money, two for the money, you know
But your precious few things
Just go to pink and blue things
Steaming wonderful engines power
Your contraptions never fail!
The girls won’t figure it out
You’re a real trendsetter, you build it better
Slightly level your head
A bubble
Contraptions never fail!
The labs won’t figure it out
So you put together designs to tether the buildings over the town
The chemical ground
Over the fog you see
Rainbows of gray and green
New maps of in between
Once in a while you look out…
Once in a while you see…
Once in a while you look out over the Aegean Sea
Dreamt you were drowning with me
All wet and nothing to see
Drink this delicious potion
What are the colors you see?
Fashions for every season
Everything dripping in sequins…
Oooooh…
Follow my every stop
Go
I’ll show you what you should be
I’ll tell you what to believe in
Monsters that walk on the ceiling
Out from my vista I’ll predict all the future and tell
Outside of heaven and hell
Secrets and beautiful shells
Oooooh…
If I let you out to play sometimes
You’d best remember that you’re mine
And if you manage to escape
I know your future so you’re never safe
Never safe
I have saved your life a million times
Now give me what is mine
A future brave, with gold engraved
To pave a simple line
Your life of my design
The things you need
It’s easy, see
What’s mine is yours is mine
I see your future in the cards
I know your future tea leaves
I see your future crystal ball
I know your future tarot
I see your future in your palm
And if the clouds are still
I see your future in the sky
Watch me do my work, you weeping worm
Poison girls with strawberries, cutting down banana trees
You always see the best of me...
Document my worst, my lovely stranger
'Cause I can't always see what's in front of me...
Wandering eye
You've got that wandering eye
And I've got my two good eyes on you pondering...
Wandering eye
I read my fortune, i hate being surprised
I had my focus over enemy lines when you wandered in the way
Then in the drunken purr of the setting sun
I see the glint of your gun...
Are we not having fun?
Sun is set, my karma will catch up with me - it hasn't yet
North
South
I could run to China but the walls would just keep tumbling down
Can't you see the good in me?
Well i could wait... Can't you see?
But it's too late How can it be?
So rearrange the features on your face
Don't you worry about being replaced
You're way to pretty with your penchant for pain...
No, I can't explain it
Wandering eye
To the left, so I look to the right
And all I see in your one good eye is you're wandering away
La la la la la la la laaaaaa
La la la la la la la la la la la la la LA LA
Wandering eye
Didn't I tell you I hate being surprised?
I never used to dream at night but you wandered in the way