"88 Lines About 44 Women" by The Nails


Debra was a Catholic girl
 she held out to the bitter end
Carla was a different type
 she's the one who put it in
Mary was a black girl
 and I was afraid of a girl like that
Susan painted pictures
 sitting down like the Budda sat

Reno was an aimless girl
 with geographic memory
Cathy was a Jesus freak
 she liked that kind of misery
Vicky had that special way
 of turning sex into a song
Kamalla couldn't, kept the beat
 kept it strong

Zila was an architype
 the voodoo queen, the queen of rap
Joan thought men were second best
 at masterbating at the bath
Sherry was a feminist
 she really had the gift of gab
Kathleen's point of view was this
 take whatever you can grab

Seattle was another girl
 who left her mark upon the map
Karen liked to tie me up
 and left me hanging by a strap
Jeanie had this night-club walk
 that made grown men feel under-aged
Mary Ellen who had a son
 said I must go and finally stayed

Gloria, the last taboo
 was shattered by her tounge one night
Mimi brought the taboo back
 and held it up before the light
Marilyn who knew no shame
 was never ever satistfied
Julie came and went so fast
 she didn't even say good-bye

Well Rhonda had a house in Venice
 lived on brown rice and cocaine
Patty had a house in Huston
 shot cough syrup in her veins
Linda thought her life was empty
 filled it up with alchohol
Katherine was much too pretty
 she didn't do that shit at all
Uh-uh, not Katherine

Pauline thought that love was simple
 turn it on and turn it off
Jean Marie was complicated
 like some French film-makers plot
Gina was the perfect lady
 always kept her stocking straight
Jackie was a rich punk rocker
 silver spoon and a paper plate

Sara was a modern dancer
 lean, pristine, transparency
Janet wrote bad poetry
 in a crazy sort of urgency
Tanya, Turkish, liked to fuck
 while wearing leather biker boots
Brenda's strange obsession was
 for certain vegitables and fruit

Rowina was an artist's daughter
 the deeper image shock her up
Dee dee's mother left her father
 took his money and his truck
Debby Rea had no such problems
 perfect Norman Rockwell home
Nina, 16, had a baby
 left her parents, lived alone
Bobby joined a new-wave band
 changed her name to Bobbysocks
Elouise who played guitar
 sang songs about boils and cops
Terry who didn't give a shit
 was just a nihilist
Rotten was more my style
 cause she wrote song just like this
Jezeable went 40 days
 drinking nothing but Pereire
Dinah drove her Chevrolet
 into the San Francisco bay
Judy came from Ohio
 she's a scientologist
Ameranta, here's a kiss
 I chose you to end this list

88 lines about 44 women