The Girls From The Streets Lyrics - Scott 2 - Scott Walker

Suffocating eyes and fast hellos and last good-byes 

Surround the night of me 

Mustache large like smoke from his cigar 

Coughs up a joke and laughs a net of sound 

Swallowing the pinwheel clowns 

Consuming all the women 

Like a giant sponge 

Snap! The waiters animate 

Luxuriate like planets whirling 'round the sun 

Collapsing next to me 

Shouts don't look sad 

Things aren't so bad 

They're just more wrong than right 

His brandy brim voice whispers 

Come with me I hold the key 

The city's ours tonight 

Heys the barmaid slaps her ass 

She shrieks her gold teeth flash 

With rapturous delight 

Earthquaking the sawdust ground 

He grabs my arm and out into the famished night 

Now two blazing leaves burning up ground 

The tiny waltz of a merry go round 

Cascading lights for every heartbeat 

Tonight we'll sleep with the girls from the streets 

Hurry faster don't look back 

His coattails snap his laughter's burning in my ears 

I ride upon this giant storm 

Through rust-red rooms where shadows breathe from every 

board 

The world is up for auction sales 

A thousand lies descend 

The women's tear-tracked cheeks 

Still we'll dance them on and on 

We can't stop now 

Not now until we reach the dawn 

Quick give us your lips 

Give us your thighs 

Give us your sad and devouring eyes 

Cascading tears for every heartbeat 

Tonight we'll sleep with the girls from the streets