Hey Modern Schoolgirl - Hey Modern Schoolgirl lyrics

Hey modern school girl what have you done to me? Hey modern school girl you seem to smirk right through me Men erected statues for you Men have toppled towers But I'd walk all across their backs to hand you some flowers Hey modern school girl you're the one they crossed the oceans for Hey modern school girl you're the reason men like me lie on the ocean floor Hey modern school girl you have seduced me Hey modern school girl you've utterly reduced me Hey modern school girl I must seem obscene Perfumed in gasoline for a girl who's only seventeen All of the worlds pretty things are heaped upon her They name each natural disaster in her honour I brought you every bloody head of every bloody saint So don't tell me you're tired of red 'Cause modern school girl I know that you ain't Perfumes and hair dyes tested on rabbits' eyes Cats' claws and roses' thorns, bloodthirsty unicorns That little girls room, a pink and purple tomb Hey modern school girl life isn't fair I'm bleeding outside your door and you don't care I don't know your language and I don't know your dances You don't know my anguish but you seem to know my chances Hey modern school girl you are one to wear it on your sleeve You may be innocent but your innocence is cruel and naive