On the main and the avenues In the condos white as bruised With the carmine of the liquor bars
There's a and mystic beauty To these girls slide by in the velvet of their cars
Through the dance halls and the shopping And the subways filled Dresden dolls To the school of angels on the ground
The city's just an expensive whore A forest with a pompadour But there ain't no woman
No, there ain't no woman No, ain't no woman around Well, I'm by these girls But there just ain't no around
And the girl that my bed Will hear the words I should've To the true love I ever found
pretend that make-up in her purse Is a day-dream, not a That comes just to kick me I can still taste the youth of her
Maybe it's the childhood I missed The first time around there's a shape to her charms There's a strange meat on her But there no woman around
No, there no woman around No, there ain't no woman Well, I'm by these girls But there just ain't no around
I feel I'm running Like a fever the night And I've run myself into the ground
I miss your smile, your And your breath on my And I'm lost and in this crowd
From the locks and curls and strings of To the drunk and eager, girls It's an all-day show Matinee in town And it suddenly occurs that I'm surrounded by girls But there ain't no around
No, there ain't no around No, there no woman around Well, I'm surrounded by girls But there just ain't no around