Your Latest Trick
All the late night bargains have been struckBetween the satin beaus and their bellesPrehistoric garbage trucksHave the city to themselvesEchoes roars dinosaursThey're all doing the monster mashAnd most of the taxis, most of the whoresAre only taking calls for cash
Mmmm, I don't know how it happenedIt all took place so quickBut all I can do is hand it to youAnd your latest trick
Well now my door was standing openSecurity was laid back and laxBut it was only my heart got brokenYou must have had a passkey made out of waxYou played robbery with insolenceAnd I played the blues in twelve bars down Lover's LaneAnd you never did have the intelligence to useThe twelve keys hanging off my chain
Mmmm, I don't know how it happenedIt all took place so quickBut all I can do is hand it to youAnd your latest trick
Now it's past last call for alcoholPast recall has been here and goneThe landlord he finally paid us allThe satin jazzmen have put away their hornsAnd we're standing outside of this wonderlandLooking so bereaved and so bereftLike a Bowery bum when he finally understandsThe bottle's empty and there's nothing left
Mmmm, I don't know how it happenedIt was faster than the eye could flickBut all I can do is hand it to youAnd your latest trick