Skinny Jeans — A playful adult tailor fits improbably narrow denim on a mannequin while an adult musician plays inside a vivid Merced thrift shop

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Skinny Jeans

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

A remembered teenage image follows a couple through decades of attraction, performing and growing older. Film-star references and boulevard scenes turn youth into a recurring fantasy, even as the lyric acknowledges gray hair and passing time. The familiar clothes become a symbol of the desire and shared history that remain.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

Skinny Jeans

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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SKINNY JEANS

Struttin’ down the street
In those skinny jeans
Diamonds on your feet
Barely 17
You got ebony
For your cigarette
The way you looked at me
I just can't forget

Baby, that was such
A long time ago
Way before the fall
Back in Chicago
When you stepped out of
A teenage dream
Baby you know things
Just ain't what they seem

You got the skinny jeans
And a silk chemise
Like a little girl
You are such a tease
Come and rock my world
Baby, if you please
Like a movie Queen
In those skinny jeans

Let me be James Dean
To your Natalie
On Mulholland Drive
Fast as we can be
On the silver screen
Into Dead Man's Curve
In those skinny jeans
Flying off the world

So much time has  gone
It just blows my mind
When I sing this song
You make me toe the line
Babe, you make me sweat
You make me scream
When you walk on by
In those skinny jeans

Now 20 years have washed away
In the Everclear of our dying day
We’ll take one more shot
Before the show
Give ‘em what we've got
Come on and go go go

In those skinny jeans
Down the boulevard
Looking more than sweet
Like a superstar
Country music fine
Heavy metal hard
Time to play it down
Down to our last card

Now we're old and gray
It's a Brand New Day
Sparking up backstage
Nothing in our way
When you hear this song
Night turns into day
Time to move along
Devil's bill to pay

Come on home with me
In those skinny jeans
I will make you see
Like you are 17
Come lay down with me
Come and set me free
Baby sweet and clean
In those skinny jeans
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