Girls on the TV - Laura Jean

Ricky played the flute

But she never had a use for it

Miming her part in the school band

While I took a solo on the saxophone

And I learned harmony

But she could dance, she could move

Like the girls on the TV

Mum took her to Johnny Young Talent School

But she quit

She said that she got scared

When they made her do the splits

She tried tap school and blew the teacher away

But the girls in the class teased her

Saying she was too chubby

I remember when she told me

She cried in shame

I told her not to worry

We can do anything

I told her one day we’d be beautiful

And maybe we could start a band

‘cos I was born to sing

And she was born to dance

She was born to dance like the

Girls on the TV, girls on the TV

She could always dance better than the

Girls on the TV, 10am R ‘n' B

She could always dance better than me

She was bullied all day

And made to feel like a fool

Mum was born again and decided

To send her to the Christian school

On Thursdays her friends

Would dance in the spirit

At the school church but Ricky laughed

And never believed in it

We moved in with Mum’s first

Boyfriend after Dad

He was only 21 and he’d always get mad

While I hid in my room

Writing poems after school

He tried to kiss Ricky

On the piano stool

I remember when she told me

She was on cocaine

I felt like I didn’t know her

Or how she got that way

Now, her lovers are all married

I wear my wedding ring

On my right hand

Maybe we weren’t meant to settle down

No, I was born to sing

And she was born to dance like the

Girls on the TV

Girls on the TV

She could always dance better than the

Girls on the TV, 10am R ‘n' B

She could always dance better than the

Girls on the TV