Your Latest Trick

All the late-night bargains have been struck

Between the satin bows and their bells

Prehistoric garbage trucks

Have the city to themselves

Echoes of roars, dinosaurs

They're all doing the monster mash

Most of the taxes, most of 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 were laid back and lax but it was only my

heart that got a broken. You must have had a pass key made out of wax. You played

rubber with insolence and I played the blues in 12 bars down lovers lane. And

you never did have the intelligence to use 12 keys hanging off of my chain. I

I don't know how it happened, all took place so quick

But all I can do, is hand it to you, and your latest trick

Well now it's past last call for alcohol, past recall has been here and gone

The landlord, he finally paid us all The set and jazz man 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

It's faster than the eye could flick

But all I can do

Is hand it to you

And your latest trick