Pretty in Pink
The Dresden Dolls Lyrics

Caroline laughs and
Caroline's happiness is infectious and

It's raining all day
Despite the gloomy weather

She loves to be one of the girls
Carolyn embraces being part of a group of women

She lives in the place
She calls a certain environment home,

In the side of our lives
A world where many people don't venture.

Where nothing is
Where nothing is as perfect as one might hope.

Ever put straight
Everyone and everything appears to be a mess.

She turns herself round
Even with her back turned,

And she smiles and she says
She manages to be optimistic and say,

'This is it'
'This is my life,'

'That's the end of the joke'
'That's the best I can get out of it,'

And loses herself
She immerses herself wholly in her own world,

In her dreaming and sleep
Spending most of her time in her own head,

And her lovers walk
The guys she dates walk

Through in their coats
with the expectation of getting back they coat they lent her.

She's...
She's quite

Pretty in pink
attractive, but also very vulnerable and possibly not well-regarded.

Isn't she?
Agreeable?

All of her lovers
All the men she's dated

All talk of her notes
All of them gossip about what Carolyn wrote to them, either in letters or texts.

And the flowers
And how none of them ever got the chance to send her flowers.

That they never sent
None of them did.

And wasn't she easy
Weren't the guys afraid that Carolyn would be an easy lay

And isn't she
And isn't Carolyn

Pretty in pink
attractive and naive-looking?

The one who insists
The guy who maintains

He was first in the line
That he was Carolyn's first

Is the last to
Is the only one who continues to

Remember her name
Speak fondly of Carolyn by name.

He's walking around
He's wandering

In this dress
Wearing Carolyn's clothes

That she wore
The ones she'd casually shared with him.

She is gone
Carolyn has left him

But the joke's the same
But the situation and the way of living is unchanged.

She's...
She is still

Pretty in pink
appealing in a helpless, feminine way

Isn't she?
correct?

Caroline talks to you
Carolyn opens up to someone)

Softly sometimes
Even if it's only once in a while.

She says
And calmly utters

'I love you' and
'I have feelings for you' and

'Too much'
that the emotions may be too much.

She doesn't have anything
Carolyn doesn't carry anything,

You want to steal
every thing she has, you wouldn't want to take it from her.

Well
Simply put

Nothing you can touch
not physically but also not mentally.

She...waves
Waives goodbye and walks away.

She buttons your shirt
She is dressing you,

The traffic
The noisy and chaotic situation

Is waiting outside
Is waiting right outside..

She hands you his coat
She gives you her ex-boyfriend's coat

She gives you her clothes
She gives you her clothing to wear

These cars collide
These cars involved in the accident.

She's...
She remains

Pretty in pink
attractive and inimitable

Isn't she?
Agreeable?