Your Latest Trick

All the late night bargains have been struck Between the satin beaus and their belles Prehistoric garbage trucks Got the city to themselves Echoes, roars and dinosaurs They're all doing the monster mash And all the taxis, and all the whores Are only taking calls for cash I don't know how it happened It all took place so quick But all I can do is hand it to you And your latest trick Well now my door was standing open Security was laid back and lax My heart got broken You got a pass key made out of wax You played robbery with insolence And I played the blues on 12 bars down on Lover's Lane You never did have the intellegence to use The 12 keys hanging off my chain I don't know how it happened It all took place so quick But all I can do is hand it to you And your latest trick Now it's past last call for alcohol Past recall has been here and gone The landlord finally paid us off The satin jazzmen have put away their horns And we're standing outside of this wonderland Looking so bereaved and so bereft Like a Bowery bum when he finally understands The bottle's empty and there's nothing left I don't know how it happened Faster than the eye could flick But all I can do is hand it to you And your latest trick