Name: Detroit Beauty School (Tloo-Tloo)
Duration: P00H03M31S
Description: Track 13 from the LP "Bachelor Pad Blue; Bent Pants & Stray Cats" by Patrick Porter (2009)

Detroit Beauty School (Tloo-Tloo)

from Bachelor Pad Blue; Bent Pants & Stray Cats by Patrick Porter

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Track 13 from the LP "Bachelor Pad Blue; Bent Pants & Stray Cats" by Patrick Porter (2009)

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DETROIT BEAUTY SCHOOL (Tloo-Tloo)
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter c.2009)

I live in a room in the Fort Shelby
I go dancing alone in the Crystal Ballroom
I light matches and pretend I'm a Pontiac
It's always blue and silver in a landslide grave
I have a job at People's Outfitting
(In an aisle like that I'll mail you a sweet light)
Roof caving in in the Detroit Commerce Building
(Years of profitability followed by sad decline)
Our lives have suffered a happier fate
(Promised renovations yet to materialize)
Sometimes when it rains I run and shout Tloo-Tloo!

I live in a room at the Book-Cadillac
You might say that I am a Medusa
The third eye I had was ripped off by vandals
Now I sit here hoping third time's a charm

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from Bachelor Pad Blue; Bent Pants & Stray Cats, track released November 18, 2009
Patrick Porter (All instruments and vocals)

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Patrick Porter Austin, Texas

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