In J. Geils Band's "Centerfold", what follows "my blood runs cold"?

In the J. Geils Band’s “Centerfold,” “my blood runs cold” is followed by “my memory has just been sold.” The line begins the song’s instantly recognizable chorus, in which the narrator discovers that a former school crush appears in a magazine centerfold.

“Centerfold” was written by keyboardist Seth Justman and lead singer Peter Wolf and released by the J. Geils Band in 1981. Its story mixes teenage nostalgia, shock, jealousy, and sexual awkwardness: the narrator remembers an admired classmate, then encounters her adult image years later in a men’s magazine.

The song became the band’s signature hit and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982. Its catchy new-wave-influenced rock arrangement helped make a potentially uncomfortable premise sound energetic and accessible to a broad pop audience.

Listeners sometimes remember the next phrase as “my memory has been sold” or jump directly to “my angel is the centerfold.” The canonical lyric includes the word “just”: “my memory has just been sold.”