On the streets and the avenues In the white as knuckles bruised With the carmine of the busy bars
There's a dark and mystic To these girls slide by in the velvet of their cars
Through the dance halls and the malls And the filled with Dresden dolls To the school of fallen angels on the
The whole city's just an expensive A forest with a pompadour But there no woman around
No, there no woman around No, there no woman around Well, I'm by these girls But there just ain't no woman
And the girl that my bed Will hear the words I should've To the only love I ever found
pretend that make-up in her purse Is a day-dream, not a comes just to kick me down I can taste the youth of her kiss
Maybe it's the childhood that I The first time around a weird shape to her charms There's a strange on her arms But there ain't no woman
No, there ain't no woman No, ain't no woman around Well, I'm surrounded by these But there just ain't no woman
Sometimes I I'm running a fever through the night And I've run myself straight into the
I miss smile, your name And breath on my skin And I'm lost and alone in this
the locks and curls and strings of pearls To the drunk and eager, jelly It's an all-day floor Matinee in town And it occurs that I'm surrounded by these girls But there no woman around
No, ain't no woman around No, ain't no woman around Well, I'm by these girls But just ain't no woman around