Pale Skinny Girl

"Pale Skinny Girl" is the 5th song on American Music Club's second album, 1988’s California.

"Pale Skinny Girl"
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Song by American Music Club from the album California
Released	1988
Format	LP / CS / CD
Length	3:33
Label	Grifter Records/Frontier Records/Demon Records
Writer(s)	Mark Eitzel
Producer(s)	Tom Mallon
California track listing
"Firefly" "Somewhere" "Laughingstock" "Lonely" "Pale Skinny Girl" "Blue And Grey Shirt" "Bad Liquor" "Now You're Defeated" "Jenny" "Western Sky" "Highway 5" "Last Harbor”

Mark Eitzel told Unhinged that the song is "about stopping for gas in South Carolina next to this Marine army base and then this little girl came out of a triangle of furniture to buy some coke and she looked like Ophelia at the bottom of the water, drowned, pale and dead."

Lyrics

Pale and skinny girl lives in the middle of a mountain
Long golden hair, someone pull her out
She walks across a parking lot
with two quarters in her hand
She just wants to take a little break from nothing

Never sees the daylight
Never needs the daylight

Outside the air pocket, there's no one around
She's frozen with terror like an animal
Baby take your first walk out into the wasteland
On every horizon, nothing

Never needs daylight
Never sees the daylight
Never needs daylight

Personnel

American Music Club

• Mark Eitzel - vocals, guitars
• Danny Pearson - bass
• Vudi - guitar, accordion
• Tom Mallon - drums, producer, engineer

Others

• Bruce Kaphan - pedal steel

Also appears on

• United Kingdom & California CD
• Johnny Mathis' Feet promo Live version