Lyrics

Love and hope and sex and dreams are still surviving on the streets And look at me, I'm in tatters Shattered Friends are so alarming, my lover's never charming Life's just a cocktail party on the street, Big Apple People dressed in plastic bags Directing traffic, some kind of fashion Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex And look at me, I'm in tatters Shattered All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta, I can't give it away on 7th Avenue This town's been wearing tatters, uh-huh Work and work for love and sex And ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success Does it matter? I'm shattered Tattered Shattered Ahh look at me, I'm tattered, yes Oh, so shattered, yes What does it matter? So tattered What does it matter? [Eddie (Jeanne)] Shadoobie, shattered, shattered (What you say?) Shadoobie, shattered, shattered (Come again?) Shadoobie, shattered, shattered Don't you know the crime rate's going up, up, up, up, up To live in this town, you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough You got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown What a mess, this town's in tatters, I've been shattered My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan [Jeanne (Eddie)] What you say? (Shadoobie, shattered, shattered) Raindrops (Shadoobie, shattered, shattered) On roses (Shadoobie, shattered, shattered) Whiskers (Shadoobie, shattered, shattered) On kittens (Shadoobie, shattered, shattered) What you say?(Shadoobie, shattered, shattered) Uh-huh (Shadoobie, shattered, shattered) This town's full of money grabbers Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots My friends they come around they Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter Pile it up, pile it up, pile it high on the platter