Tim Brickley and the Bleeding Hearts.

Lyrics

AN INCONGRUOUS GIRL (PERFUME AND LEATHER)
(Timothy Brickley and David Rheins)

She wore perfume and leather, an incongruous scent,
mixes, blends, becomes one, perfume and leather.
Tell me about your life, this is fun, we’re both clean slates.
The waitress says we look in love, we laugh because it’s our first date.
Then, she tells me she ran around with junkies when she was just a kid,
doing things that I never did.
But she saw through to the light of self-respect
Yeah, she was shining, didn’t know what to expect.

    Perfume and leather, she’s an incongruous girl.
    How did she weather all the storms that rocked her world?
    When she was a girl, she knew the pain of two or three lives,
    almost cut her wrists playing with knives
    but she pulled out so strong and alive and so lovely.
    Perfume and leather, she’s an incongruous girl.
Perfume and leather, I told her I had this song.
She said, what’s it called, ‘The Girly is Squirrely?”
I knew then I was wrong, my hope for her was gone.
And though she did not love me, that magic spark was not there,
still, in my own way, I care.
When I see you out, with all those other guys you’ll see,
not one of them makes a metaphor like me.

    Perfume and leather, she’s an incongruous girl.
    How did she weather all the storms that rocked her world?
    When she was a girl, she knew the pain of two or three lives,
    almost cut her wrists playing with knives
    but she pulled out so strong and alive and so lovely.
    Perfume and leather, she’s an incongruous girl.

                                                                                         Copyright 1984, Timothy Brickley & David Rheins

Gary Fryar: drums.
Dean Rosenscrans: bass.
Pete Gable: Faux-fisa organ, bv's.
Alan Hagenmaier: electric guitar, bv's.
TB: electric guitar, vox.