Godley & Creme An Englishman in New York Lyrics

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

No way street ... No way street ... No way street
Happy to see you, have a nice day!

Defecting Russian dancers dance into Hockney prints
Exclusive to Bloomingdales, 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 omelettes, the breaking of legs
Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eggs
The pink filet mignon looks black on the necks

Strange apparatus you've never seen
Strange apparatus, even stranger theme
Street alligators, Big Anglophile
will navigate us through a change of style

I came, I saw, what manner of beast is this?
New York, you talk a little bit left of centre
A scream, a shout
New York is throwing its weight about

Walk tall, walk straight, spit the world right in the eye
The stronger the wood the straighter the arrow

Dismembered hopeful My-Lai veterans queuing for sleaze
"Sorry no dogs, no f__s, no shriners, and no amputees"
s__ual 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

No way street ... No way street ... No way street
Lock up your daughters, Avon crawling!

Devoted collectors of paraphernalia out walking the rock
Battle and b____ for the ultimate kitch of a crucifix clock
Two miniature romans, running on rails
Appear every hour and bang in the nails
Oh I've got to have it, Christ, I gotta be the first on our block
Disturbing facts about n___ 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
Ssshh, Howard Johnson is moving his bowels

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

Walk tall, walk straight, spit the world right in the eye
The stronger the wood, the straighter the arrow

No way street ... No way street ... No way street ... No way street

No way street ... No way street ... No way street