For the price of a cup of tea    You’d get a line of coke    For the price of a night with me    You’d be the village joke    For the price of a pint of milk    I’ll tell you all I know    About the state of the world today    Sit down, enjoy the show       She had several hours to find a place to stay    Try the coffee shop, but somewhere on the way    She heard about a place, somewhere she could go    Walked a couple of blocks to her destination       For the price of a cup of tea    You’d get a seven inches    Soul black vinyl to stop your tears    You can use my stereo    You might be the village joke but    Don’t listen to the gossip of the other folk       She just wants to be accepted in this place    There’s something in her face    She will always seem exotic and aloof    If you want to know the truth    Her friend the stars dripping from the jewelled sky    When she was passing by    Would keep her calm    There was people that she knew, at least she thought she did    Be easy on the kid!       She took her winter coat from her plastic wrapper    Pushed back her fringe, see her birthmark    She can finally be the person she wanted to be