The Trouble With Pretty Things

✍🏻 WRITTEN & POST-PRODUCED BY EME LATINA (2026)

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THE CHALLENGE:

- Your track must be recognizably ROCK at its core.

- Guitars need to matter.

- Make it feel performed.

- BRING SOME ATTITUDE.

Make something enormous, ridiculous, beautiful, ugly or all four at once.

Then drag it onto the Soundry stage and show us your version of rock.

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ABOUT:

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Yes, it's a dramatic story, and one of my fave I've written. Pay close attention to the lyrics, it'll make me happy haha

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LYRICS:

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It was a pretty life (yeah, yeah, yeah)

For someone else’s wife…

I used to envy the way she walked

With you by her side

Now I know all that was smoke…

Smoke and mirrors used to hide

her...

[hook]

Pretty, pretty

Pretty little eyes

Pretty, pretty

Pretty, little lies…

Oh pretty pretty

So pretty, pretty

Pretty in disguise.

You look like the hero from her novel

I know she was bruised, used to grovel

I know you killed her, used the shovel

I know you don’t look like you’re the trouble

Just…

[pre-hook]

The town’s favourite

Black card, face card, act right

A stand up guy (with the…)

[hook]

[Bridge]

One way or another I will find you…

Just where the hell you ran to…

Trust that I won’t be kind at all

I just picked up a new axe and pistol!

All I need now are your—

[reprised hook]

Pretty, pretty

Pretty little eyes

(You’re going down for your…)

Pretty, little lies…

(All I need to be is…)

So pretty, pretty

Pretty in disguise

[breakdown]

I got my alibis

(I’m coming to get you…)

I’m coming to get you

End your…

(I’m coming to get you…)

End your… (ohhh, ohhh)

[reprised hook]

Pretty, pretty

Pretty little eyes

(You’ll be my…)

Pretty, little lies…

(You’ll see me…)

Oh pretty pretty

So pretty, pretty

Pretty in disguise

[post-chorus]

It’s time… to… say… goodbye(ohaahh)

Oh, I’ve come to say goodbye

[outro]

You’re ‘bout to plead… and grovel

(Please! Oh, please!)

I’m rewriting the ending to your novel

(You see…)

You killed her, used the shovel

But now I’m here, and far… worse… trouble

Let me hear you say…

Let me hear you say…

(Oh, pretty please—)

3…

2…

Oh, I've got you now!

BANG! *(Bang)(bang)*