Private Life

Album: Warm Leatherette (1980)
Charted: 17
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  • Your private life drama baby leave me out
    (repeat 3 times)
    J'ai les glands with your theatrics
    Your acting's a drag
    It's o.k. on TV 'cause you can turn it off
    But don't try me
    Yes your marriage is a tragedy
    But it's not my concern
    I'm very superficial I hate anything official

    [Chorus:]
    Your private life drama baby leave me out
    (repeat 3 times)
    (backup chorus)
    You've been lying to someone and now me
    Stop
    (repeat 3 times)

    Your sentimental gestures only bore me to death
    You've made a desperate appeal now save your breath
    Attachment to obligation through guilt and regret
    Shit that's so wet
    And your sex life complications are not my fascinations

    [Chorus]

    You asked me for advice I said use the door
    But you're still clinging to somebody you deplore
    And now you want to use me for emotional blackmail
    I just feel pity when you lie, contempt when you cry

    [Chorus] Writer/s: CHRISTINE HYNDE
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Ziggy Pop from UsaI came here hoping to hear what Chrissie Hynde thought about this cover. I am glad she thought highly of it. I love this version.
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