No Woman Around Lyrics - Singles - Philosopher Kings

On the main streets and the avenues 

In the condos white as knuckles bruised 

With the carmine of the busy liquor bars 

There's a dark and mystic beauty 

To these inner-city girls 

That slide by in the velvet of their cars 

Through the dance halls and the shopping malls 

And the subways filled with Dresden dolls 

To the school of fallen angels on the ground 

The whole city's just an expensive whore 

A forest nymph with a pompadour 

But there ain't no woman around 

No, there ain't no woman around 

No, there ain't no woman around 

Well, I'm surrounded by these girls 

But there just ain't no woman around 

And the girl that fills my bed 

Will hear the words I should've said 

To the only true love I ever found 

I'll pretend that make-up in her purse 

Is a day-dream, not a curse 

That comes just to kick me down 

I can still taste the youth of her kiss 

Maybe it's the childhood that I missed 

The first time around there's a weird shape to her charms 

There's a strange meat on her arms 

But there ain't no woman around 

No, there ain't no woman around 

No, there ain't no woman around 

Well, I'm surrounded by these girls 

But there just ain't no woman around 

Sometimes I feel I'm running 

Like a fever through the night 

And I've run myself straight into the ground 

I miss your smile, your name 

And your breath on my skin 

And I'm lost and alone in this crowd 

From the locks and curls and strings of pearls 

To the drunk and eager, jelly girls 

It's an all-day floor show Matinee in town 

And it suddenly occurs that I'm surrounded by these girls 

But there ain't no woman around 

No, there ain't no woman around 

No, there ain't no woman around 

Well, I'm surrounded by these girls 

But there just ain't no woman around