Nothing Is True

You get nothin' back for all you saved
Just eternity in a spacious grave
She said, "Nothin' is true,
everything is permitted"

Things just go from bad to worse
Starts like a kiss and ends like a curse
But nothing's true,
she said everything is permitted

She got jewels on her tongue to time the stars
She drives all morning in unmarked cars
But nothin's true,
Hey, it's all permitted

She got these special tools just to keep things tight
They robbed her eyes long ago of light
But nothin's true,
she told me it's all permitted

She got inscrutable poise and nihilist charms
She gets her sleep through tubes in her arm
She said nothin's true,
she said everything is permitted

She nods on graves, the marble's cold and white,
Her dreams surround the sun like a satellite
She said nothin' is true,
she told me it's all permitted

The spiders milk her thigh, it does not phase her
She cleans her skin with a Krypton laser
Nothing is true,
everything is permitted

She got heels so high, she got a gown so thin
Her eyes stop the whip before it tames her sin
She said nothin's true,
everything is permitted

Until they perfect the techniques to clone
Y'all better remember you're all alone
Because nothing is true,
she said everything is permitted

People Who Died

Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

G-Berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam, bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from his cell in The Tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others,
And I salute you brother

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, they went 'n' died

Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some, some bitchin' proof
Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?"
But Tony couldn't fly... Tony died!

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
He said, "Hey, I know it's dangerous, but it sure beats Riker's."
But the next day, he got offed,
By the very same bikers!

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, they went and they died

Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
Looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, they went and they died

G-Berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
They died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
I miss 'em--they died!

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, they just died

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in The Tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
An' Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others,
This song is for you my brother!

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, they went and they died.
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died.

It's Too Late

It's too late
To fall in love with Sharon Tate
An' it's too soon
To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb

I think it's time
that you all start to think about gettin' by
Without that need to go out and find
somebody to love

It's too late
There's no one left that I even wanna imitate
You see, you just don't know
I'm here to give you my heart
And you want some fashion show

But it ain't no contribution
To rely on the institution
To validate your chosen art
And to sanction your boredom
And let you play out your part

It's too late
You know when they got nothin' to give
They always part their legs for what's negative
Yeah, and they're so decadent...
Until their daddy's money from home's all spent

So I think it's time,
'Cause it's too easy to rely
On worshipping devils and strangers in bed,
Though they do get good drugs, and they do give good head

It's too late
You shoulda realized I was worth the wait
Ah, but you didn't hesitate
And when he took you off, you let him seal our fate

So I think it's time
That ya all start to think about gettin' by
Without that need to go out and find
Some--
body
to
love!

Love Crimes

Hollywood looks good at night
The TV's gettin' fine reception
But last night Jean told Steve
About her imminent conception

She wants a plum tree for the house, for the child
Stevie raised his head and said, "That's wild!"

Stevie tried and tried
Jean would not comply
She said, "Your partying needs, you see,
Ain't nothing to this seed in me
You make love a crime"

Billy don't live in his spirit
Billy don't live in his heart
Billy walks around Times Square at night
His body is his loft

Life is easy when you're pretty and 16
Just make sure that your underwear is clean

Billy don't ask why
He just stares at the sky
He says, "Love always leaves ya bent,
This way I pay the rent."
He makes love a crime

I still believe in romance
I just think there's something missing
'Cause last night just by chance,
I caught you and Ivan kissing

Jealousy rose up right
From its hole
Just when I had it
All under control

Say goodbye, goodbye
'Cause you're both gonna die
Don't ask me why
It's all in your eyes,
You made love a crime

Don't ask me why
It reflects in your eyes
You made love a crime

(No More) Luxuries

Your uncle's scandals shook the House of Lords
Your daddy's squeezed out as Chairman of the Board
No more doctors writin' no more 'scripts
No more inter-conta-nental trips

No more luxuries
There's no more luxuries
And all you're left with,
Left with me
Left with me
Left with me
No more luxuries

No more crystal pistols up your nose
The dry cleaner wants money or the clothes
The Rolls Royce, my dear, need it be said?
If I were you I would think "moped"

No more luxury...
There's no more luxuries
And all you're left with,
Left with me
Left with me
Left with me
There's no more luxuries

You gotta do it in a whole new way
But I'm gonna make a vow to stay
Gotta eat it off the floor a while
You don't even have a phone to dial
Do it in a whole new way,
Honey, that's the price we pay

Your necklaces have turned to centipedes
They slowly crawl away
And the bar is empty and there ain't no waiter
The ice all melts in the refrigerator
The dead
meat
drips
On the ah--
asparagus tips

There's no more luxuries
Left but me
No more, no more, no more
There's no more luxuries

That article on you in Interview
It was dropped for a feature on Monaco Zoo
Calvin called, he wants his handmade vest
And it's snip snip snip to your American Express

No more luxuries
There's no more, no more, no more luxuries
An' all you are left with,
Left with just me
Just me, mon cheri
Me, me
There's no more, no more, no more luxuries

No more lunching out at "21"
What you want now comes inside a bun
"C'est la vie," the color TV
That's gone too, but I'll stay with you

No more luxury...
There's no more luxuries
An' all you're left with is me
Ma cheri, left with
You're left with me
There's no more luxuries

Dance the Night Away

I smoke a cigarette
As I wait in the bath
And I wait for you
For an hour and a half
And I go to the window
Where the sky falls down in rains
And I look 'cross the river
Where they dance the night away

I watch the couples
On the corner of town
Men dressed in black tie
The ladies in gowns
A taxi pulls up
Drives them 'cross the street,
Takes them to a place
Where they dance the night away
Dance the night away
Dance the night away
Dance the night away

I crawl across the bed
Playing the radio low
Trying to forget
What I already know
And I want to sleep
But the song never ends
It comes from a place
Where they dance the night away

I reach in the drawer
And I take out respect
It doctors the sickness
I took years to perfect
And I feel sweet sleep
Like the shadows on a charm
Moves to my brain
Where I dance the night away

Dance the night away
Dance the night away
Dance the night away
(without you)
Dance the night away
Dance...
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