S hattered s hattered
L ove and hope and sex and dreams
Are s till surviving on the street
Look at me - I'm in tatters!
I 'm a shattered.
Shattered
Friends are so alarming
And 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
Shattered
L aughter joy and loneliness and se x and
sex and sex and sex
L ook at me - I'm in tatters I 'm a s hattered
S hattered
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
(shattered shattered)
W ork and work for love and sex
A in't you hungry for success s uccess
success success
D oes it matter? (Sh attered) Does it
matter?
I 'm shattered. Shattered
Ahhh look at me - I'm a shattered
I'm a shattered
Look at me - I'm a shattered yeah
Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still
surviving on the street
and look at me - i'm in tatters yeah
I've been battered what does it matter
Does it matter uh-huh
Does it matter uh-huh I'm a shattered
Don't you know the crime rate is going up
up up up up!
To live in this town you must be 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
Uh-huh This town's full of money grabbers
Go ahead
Bite the Big Apple don't mind the
maggots huh
Shadoobie My brain's been battered
My friends they come around they
Flatter flatter flatter flatter flatter flatter
flatter!
Pile it up pile it high on the platter
