Slit Skirts Lyrics - Singles - Townshend Pete

I was just thirty four years old and I was still wandering in a haze 

Wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were lost in a maze 

I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of divine right to the blues 

It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the front page sad news 

The incense burned away and the stench began to rise 

And lovers now estranged avoided catching each others' eyes 

And girls who lost their children cursed the men who fit the coil 

And men not fit for marriage took their refuge in the oil 

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned 

>From all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned.... 

Slit skirts - Jeannie never weas those slit skirts 

And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts 

Can't pretend that growing old never hurts 

Knee pants - Jeannie never wears no knee pants 

We have to be so drunk to try a new dance 

So afraid of every new romance 

Slit skirts slit skirt 

Jeannie isn't wearing those 

Slit skirts slit skirt 

She wouldn't dare in those 

Slit skirts slit skirt 

Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt 

Romance romance 

Why aren't we thinking up 

Romance 

Why can't we drink it up 

True heart romance 

Just need a brief new romance 

Let me tell you some more about myself you know I'm sitting at home just now 

The big events of the day are passed and the late TV's around 

I'm number one in the home team but I still feel unfulfilled 

A silent voice in her broken heart complains that I'm unskilled 

And I know that when she thinks of me she thinks of me as "Him" 

But unlike me she don't work off her frustration in the Gym 

Recriminations fester and the past can never change 

A woman's expectations run from both ends of the range 

Once she woke with untamed lovers' face between her legs 

Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg 

Slit skirts slit skirt 

Jeannie isn't wearing those 

Slit skirts slit skirt 

She wouldn't dare in those 

Slit skirts slit skirt 

Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt 

Romance romance 

Why aren't we thinking up 

Romance 

Why can't we drink it up 

True heart romance 

Just need a brief new romance