Shock to the System Songtext
von Rod Stewart

Well, she came from the modern city
From a clean, white neighborhood
She had a degree in social science
She came out here to Hollywood

She′s a six-foot Sultry Beauty
With an eye for Polynesian Art
In a short shirt and Doctor Martens
She could kick-start a dead man's heart

It′s not what she says
It's all in her sway
She's a shock to the system
It′s not how she talks
It′s all in her walk
It's a shock to the system

She is a rough-cut sacred diamond
In a sea of mediocre style
She just wants the pro-shot body
She may be crazy, but she′s no wild child


She have an old folks out on Sundays
Plays piano in a rock and blues band
She don't drink, smoke, dope, or do Cocaine
But she parties hard all the same

It′s not what she says
It's all in her sway
She′s a shock to the system
It's not how she talks
It's all in her walk
She′s a shock to the system

Ooh!
Ah
Oh, yeah

Shock me, baby
Shock me, baby, oh, well (whoa!)

As I was walking home one night, on the streets that never sleep
In that subterranean part of town, where love is never found
On a billboard, on the topless place, I noticed her pretty face
They said, appearing here twice nightly, stay free as a living

Well, she had a whole lot of money
And went back home to Michigan
She had maximized her true potential
But didn′t scandalize the family name


It's not what she says
It′s all in her sway
It's a shock to the system
It′s not how she talks
It's all in her walk
She′s a shock to the system

It's not what she says
It's all in her sway
It′s a shock to the system
It′s not how she talks
It's all in her walk
It′s a shock to the system