We met as soul mates On Parris Island We left as inmates >From an asylum And we were sharp As sharp as knives And we were so gung ho To lay down our lives We came in spastic Like tameless horses We left in plastic As numbered corpses And we learned fast To travel light Our arms were heavy But our bellies were tight We had no home front We had no soft soap They sent us Playboy They gave us Bob Hope We dug in deep And shot on sight And prayed to Jesus Christ With all our might We had no cameras To shoot the landscape We passed the hash pipe And played our Doors tapes And it was dark So dark at night And we held on to each other Like brother to brother We promised our mothers we'd write And we would all go down together We said we'd all go down together Remember Charlie Remember Baker They left their childhood On every acre And who was wrong? And who was right? It didn't matter in the thick of the fight We held the day In the palm Of our hand They ruled the night And the night Seemed to last as long as six weeks On Parris Island We held the coastline They held the highlands And they were sharp As sharp as knives They heard the hum of our motors They counted the rotors And waited for us to arrive And we would all go down together We said we'd all go down together Yes we would all go down together
Uptown girl
She's been living
In her uptown world
I bet she never
Had a back street guy
I bet her mama
Never told her why
I'm gonna try
For an uptown girl
(Uptown girl)
She's been living
In her white bread world
(White bread world)
As long as anyone
With hot blood (hot blood can)
Can and now she's looking
For a downtown man
(Downtown man)
That's what I am
And when she knows what
She wants from her time
(From her time, yeah)
And when she wakes up
And makes up her mind
She'll (She'll)
See I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love with
An uptown girl
(Uptown girl)
You know I've seen
Her in her uptown world
(Uptown world)
She's getting tired
Of her high class toys
(High class toys)
And all her presents
From her uptown boys
(Uptown boys)
She's got a choice
Uptown girl
You know I can't afford
To buy her pearls
But maybe someday
When my ship comes in (in)
She'll understand what
Kind of guy I've been (I've been)
And then I'll win
And when she's walking
She's looking so fine
And when she's talking
She'll say that
She's mine
She'll (She'll)
Say I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love
With an uptown girl
She's been living in
Her white bread world
As long as anyone
With hot blood can
And now she's looking
For a downtown man
That's what I am
Uptown girl
(Uptown girl)
She's my uptown girl
(Uptown girl)
You know I'm in love
With an uptown girl
(Uptown girl)
My uptown girl
(Uptown girl)
You know I'm in love
With an uptown girl
(Uptown girl)
She's my uptown girl
Don't you know I'm in love
With an uptown girl?
(Uptown girl)
My uptown girl
(Uptown girl)
Don't you know I'm in love
With an uptown girl?
(Uptown girl)
She's my uptown girl
Don't you know I'm in love
With an uptown girl?
(Uptown girl)