Nate Ruess
All the Pretty Girls
[Intro]
(Yeah, that's cool
So it's gonna have to be two passes
The pretty—)
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night

[Verse 1]
So I call your name
Cross my fingers, uncross the others
Hesitate, oh, I don't think straight
With nothing to prove
I don't wanna say I'm leaving
I'll stay until the weekend
You can take all the things
The boxes and rings and get going
'Cause I've been waiting for

[Chorus]
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night
Let it be and come to me with the look in your eyes
Well you break and take all the words from my mouth
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down

[Verse 2]
So I call (I call) you out (Out baby)
Just to feel a little bit better about myself (He does)
I do (You do), baby
I do, I do, I do (Yeah, we really get it, yeah, we know you do)
Until their lips start to move and their friends talk music
I'll say, "I've never heard the tune"
But I have, I just hate the band
'Cause they remind me of you
Every single night ends up the same
I don't say much at all but I bring up your name
(Over and over and over)
I think it's striking me out
[Chorus]
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night
Let it be and come to me with the look in your eyes
Well you break and take all the words from my mouth
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down
But not you, you still wear boots and your hair is too long
And then this one doesn't wanna admit she's falling in love
Oh, c'mon, oh, c'mon, what's a boy to do?
When all the pretty girls can't measure to you?

[Bridge]
I don't understand your reasons
Please just stay over the weekend
You can't take all those things, they define you and me
Everything we've become
You're all that I need
Please don't make me face my generation alone

[Chorus]
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night
Let it be and come to me with the look in your eyes
And you break and take all the words from my mouth
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down
But not you, I feel your faith is destroying the world
And then this one, never really understood
The eighties is over and done
Oh, c'mon, what's a boy to do?
When all the pretty girls can't measure to you?
[Outro]
Say all the pretty girls on a Saturday night
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night