JOEY MCGEE

Lyrics

the guilty undertaker sighs
the lonely organ-grinder cries
the silver saxophones say i should refuse you
the cracked bells and the washed out horns
they blow into my face with scorn
but it’s not that way, i wasn’t born to lose you

i want you, i want you
i want you so bad
honey, i want you

the drunken politician leaps
upon the street where mothers weep
and saviours who are fast asleep wait for you
and i wait for them to interrupt me
drinking from my broken cup
and asking me to open up the gate for you

i want you, i want you
i want you so bad
honey, i want you

now all my fathers, they’ve gone down
true love they’ve been without it
but all their daughters put me down
‘cause i don’t think about it

well i return to the queen of spades
and talk with my chambermaid
she knows that i’m not afraid to look at her
she is good to me and
there’s nothing she doesn’t see
she knows where i’d like to be
but it doesn’t matter

i want you, i want you
i want you so bad
honey, i want you

now your dancing child with his chinese suit
he spoke to me, i took his flute
i know i wasn’t very cute to him, was i
but i did it because he lied
and because he took you for a ride
and because time was on his side, and because i

i want you, i want you
i want you so bad
honey, i want you