Your old lover's lying in the gutter
  He used to be such an all night strutter
  "Oh, my heart," I heard him mutter
  "Oh, my dear, it seems to flutter"
  Ah, ah
  It's so hard to say "No"
  When the deck is stacked to only go slow
  It's easy sweet to live it up
  An easy street when you've had enough
  Ah, ah
    Darkened night, splashing light
  Soft and white and so polite
  Let him in, beneath the rim
  Beneath the skin, your next of kin
  Cleansing fire, funeral pyre
  Broken wire grown inside her
  Secret hush, swollen rush
  It's soft and plush, it's so plush
    You know it's so passe
  To sleep without you every day
  So easy to do your stuff
  So easy to live it up
  Ah, ah