Re: Tonight there was a fight in my local chip shop
Date: September 1, 2008 20:22
Battered, Battered
Love and hope and sex and dreams
Are still surviving on the street
Look at me, Im in batter!
Im a battered
Battered
Friends are so alarming
My lovers never charming
Lifes just a cocktail party on the street
Big apple
People dressed in plastic bags
Directing traffic
Some kind of fashion
Battered
Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, Im in batter
Im a battered
Battered
All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I cant give it away on 7th avenue
This towns been wearing batters (battered, battered)
Work and work for love and sex
Aint you hungry for success, success, success, success
Does it matter? (battered) does it matter?
Im battered.
Battered
Ahhh, look at me, Im a battered
Im a battered
Look at me- Im a battered, yeah
Pride and joy and greed and sex
Thats what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street
And look at me, Im in batter, yeah
Ive been battered, what does it matter
Does it matter, uh-huh
Does it matter, uh-huh, Im a battered
Dont you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
What a mess this towns in tatters Ive been battered
My brains been battered, splattered all over manhattan
Uh-huh, this towns full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the big apple, dont mind the maggots, huh
Shadoobie, my brains been battered
My friends they come around they
Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter