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Your Petty Pretty Things by The Get Up Kids

TRACK

The Get Up Kids

Your Petty Pretty Things

Release date: 25th January 2011

From There Are Rules (Deluxe Edition)Track 133:28
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"Your Petty Pretty Things" is a track by The Get Up Kids, from the album There Are Rules (Deluxe Edition), released 25th January 2011. The track is 3:28 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about The Get Up Kids.

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Lyrics

Your Petty Pretty Things

All of your pretty things
Your petty pretty things
Are gone
The ground beneath your feet
Isn't the stable earth you thought
A song so sweetly sung
As if the offer would rescind
Credit all firsthand accounts
With need to write about and spin
Mistakes
They're all mistakes
They're all mistakes
But on the way down
On the way down
Before you can see
But all the way down
You laugh with the pieces
You just can't explain it all away
Away the damage
And after you atone
This is all you have to show
All of your pretty things
Those petty pretty things
You lost
Discerning tastes agree
The who you used to be
But now we see you
Now we see you
On the way down
All the way down
Before you can see
But all the way down
You laugh with the pieces
You just can't explain it all away
Away the damage
And after you atone
This is all you have to show
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"
"Does it seem to be persisting?"

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

Track details

From There Are Rules (Deluxe Edition)

3:282011
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Album
There Are Rules (Deluxe Edition)
There Are Rules (Deluxe Edition)
The Get Up Kids
25th January 2011
Track number
13
Release year
2011
  1. 1Tithe
    3:40
  2. 2Regent's Court
    2:06
  3. 3Shatter Your Lungs
    2:49
  4. 4Automatic
    2:56
  5. 5Pararelevant
    3:37
  6. 6Rally 'round the Fool
    5:17
  7. 7Better Lie
    4:19
  8. 8Keith Case
    4:05
  9. 9The Widow Paris
    3:37
  10. 10Birmingham
    2:36
  11. 11When It Dies
    4:04
  12. 12Rememorable
    2:57
  13. 13Your Petty Pretty Things
    3:28
  14. 14Tommy Gentle
    2:32
  15. 15How You’re Bound
    6:03
  16. 16Past Is Past
    3:53
  17. 17Walk ’em with Grace
    2:33
  18. 18Neverending
    3:28

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