An Englishman in New York Lyrics

[Verse 1: Kevin Godley]
Demented New York athletes staggering ’round the block
Deforned Chicanos pour in Chicago’s rolling stock
Digital bathrooms drilling for furs
Surgical stockings marked his and hers
Guggenheim attitudes back to back
With Jewish Baroque

[Pre-Chorus: Kevin Godley]
No way street
No way street
No way street
Happy to see you, have a nice day!

[Verse 2: Kevin Godley]
Defecting Russian dancers dance into Hockney prints
Exclusive to Bloomingdale’s, gift-wrapped in red
From the land of blue rinse
They boggle at menus in Olde English verse
“Ode to a Burger” by Keats at his worst
The hissing of omelets, the breaking of legs
Don’t shoot till you see the whites of their eggs
The pink fillet mignon looks black on the negs

[Chorus]
Strange apparatus
You’ve never seen
Strange apparatus, even stranger theme
Street alligators
Big Anglophile
Will navigate us through a change of style

[Bridge: Kevin Godley]
I came, I saw
What manner of beast is this?
New York, you talk a little bit left of center
A scream, a shout
New York is throwing its weight about

[Post-Chorus: Lol Creme]
Walk tall, walk straight
Spit the world right in the eye
The stronger the wood the straighter the arrow

[Verse 3: Kevin Godley]
Dismembered hopeful My Lai veterans queuing for sleaze
“Sorry, no dogs, no fags, no Shriners, and no amputees”
Sexual athlete applies for audition
Willing to make it in any position
Just one of the extras with blood on their faces
In “Snow White and the Seven Basket Cases”
I’m happy and dopey and dirty in places

[Pre-Chorus: Kevin Godley]
No way street
No way street
No way street
Lock up your daughters (Avon crawling!)

[Verse 4: Kevin Godley]
Devoted collectors of paraphernalia out walking the rock
Battle and bitch for the ultimate kitsch
Of a crucifix clock
Two miniature Romans, running on rails
Appear every hour and bang in the nails
I’ve got to have it, Christ, I gotta be the first
On our block

Disturbing facts about Nazi splinter groups seen on the news
They’re picketing synagogues and claiming that
Hitler was King of the Jews
Caught in the tunnel an ambulance howls
A men’s room attendant is flapping his jowls
(Shh, Howard Johnson is moving his bowels)

[Chorus]
Strange apparatus
You’ve never seen
Strange apparatus, even stranger theme
Street alligators
Big Anglophile
Will navigate us through a change of style
Strange apparatus
You’ve never seen
Strange apparatus, even stranger theme

[Post-Chorus: Lol Creme]
Walk tall, walk straight
Spit the world right in the eye
The stronger the wood the straighter the arrow

[Outro: Kevin Godley]
No way street
No way street
No way street
No way street

No way street
No way street
No way street
No way street