Wide Boys Lyrics - The Island Years - Ultravox

I took a walk down New York avenue 

Wearing my latest disguise 

Enjoying the perfume of utter dismay 

I was effectively anesthetized 

Starving so arrogantly in jumble-sale clothes 

Evangeline hires out my throat 

We've got the streets of London wrapped in our beds 

Nagasaki in our own coats 

We're the wide boys 

Up on the streets 

Wide boys 

Ah, go on and meet me 

Wide boys 

Delightfully unpleasant 

With the foxy adolescent (???) 

Tired of being put down 

Broken-hearted my life (???) started 

Tired of being cut down 

All your illusions disillusioned (???) 

Wide boys 

Up on the streets 

Wide boys 

Ah, go on and meet me 

Wide boys 

Delightfully unpleasant 

With the foxy adolescent (???) 

We'll do some music plays the wrong side of nightmare 

Juke-box models collide 

The scent on the fire escaping blazing to the sun 

Embracing the old suicide pride 

I spent a few lifetimes making spinal connections 

Down on Einstein Boulevard 

I've to to walk a tightrope now the rampart is so high 

I swagger like a neon guitar 

With the wide boys 

Up on the streets 

Wide boys 

Ah, go on and meet me 

Wide boys 

Delightfully unpleasant 

With the foxy adolescent (???) 

Wide boys 

Up on the streets 

Wide boys 

Ah, go on and meet me 

Wide boys 

Delightfully unpleasant 

With the foxy adolescent (???)