Your old lover's lying in the gutter   He used to be such an all night strutter   "Oh, my heart," I heard him mutter   "Oh, my dear, it seems to flutter"   Ah, ah   It's so hard to say "No"   When the deck is stacked to only go slow   It's easy sweet to live it up   An easy street when you've had enough   Ah, ah      Darkened night, splashing light   Soft and white and so polite   Let him in, beneath the rim   Beneath the skin, your next of kin   Cleansing fire, funeral pyre   Broken wire grown inside her   Secret hush, swollen rush   It's soft and plush, it's so plush      You know it's so passe   To sleep without you every day   So easy to do your stuff   So easy to live it up