Yella
|
|
Up in the morning at 8:05, my room’s too cold to crack ?a job?
|
There’s no beginning, there is no end
|
The landlord has cut the heat again (Say what?)
|
It’s freezing cold in New York City
|
I have no heat and it’s a pity
|
I pay my rent bill right on time but I’m so cold that it’s a crime
|
They say that New York’s red hot
|
I’m here to tell you that it’s not
|
And since the landlord he don’t care, I gotta ?have? my Long John Underwear
|
You gotta have a strong heart to live in New York
|
You gotta have strong lungs to live in New York
|
You gotta have a strong skin to live in New York
|
You gotta have Long Johns to live in New York
|
It’s gonna take a lot of heart to live in New York
|
It’s gonna take a lot of soul to live in New York
|
You gotta have a lot of cash to live in New York
|
You gotta have a lot of dash to live in New York
|
Freezing heart and ?frozen below?, with freezing ears and frozen nose
|
On and on and on, on and on from midnight to the break of dawn
|
I shiver in the shower, stutter on the phone
|
Wonder why I end up an Eskimo
|
If the landlord he don’t bend, I guess I have to move again
|
You gotta have a strong heart to live in New York
|
You gotta have strong lungs to live in New York
|
You gotta have a strong skin to live in New York
|
You gotta have Long Johns to live in New York
|
You gotta have a lot of heart to live in New York
|
You gotta have a lot of soul to live in New York
|
You gotta have a lot of cash to live in New York
|
You gotta have a lot of dash to live in New York
|
|
I like to move where I can grove
|
Once a move to twice improve
|
To the South where the sun is hot
|
To a place where the landlord’s not
|
I take my wife and the three fat babies because I ?came for New York lady?
|
Left, right, left and to the South
|
(Forward march) I’m stepping out
|
You gotta have a strong heart to live in New York
|
You gotta have strong lungs to live in New York
|
You gotta have a strong skin to live in New York
|
You gotta have Long Johns to live in New York
|
Left, right, left, right, left, right, left
|
Left, right, left, right, left, right, left
|
Left, right, left, right, left, right, left
|
Left, right, left, right, left, right, left
|
|
Why don’t you move into the Louvre?
|
It’s cosy there and you could prove Monet was hot, Picasso was not
|
I should have moved but ?milk’s no joke?
|
?Fool blew his bankroll tootin’ cold?
|
?Now he don’t like my on the spot?
|
?His New York baby and they’re rather freezing?
|
That would be the bee’s knees
|
To London please
|
I said, “Excuse me if I have to sneeze”
|
I fear the cold like a disease
|
|
Have you ever seen a Londoner have a heart?
|
Have you ever seen a shark bark?
|
Have you ever seen a snake with hips?
|
Have you ever seen a chicken with lips?
|
Have you ever known a harp to talk?
|
My god (Describe it)
|
Have you ever heard applause for a pause?
|
Have you ever seen a ?flash of flashes, flashes?
|
???
|
?A rub of rubben, rubben?
|
?A millionaire on my fear?
|
?I date the lady I say?
|
But you could have seen ?an empty day job?
|
A summer in the summer
|
???
|
A rock and roller reefer
|
???
|
A brother kill another
|
???
|
???
|
???
|
???
|
???
|
Loved by your lover
|
???
|
Stick by a sticker
|
Lit by a lighter
|
Have you ever got robbed by a robber
|
???
|
Dreams form a dreamer
|
Have you ever given a gift to a giver
|
Time to a timer
|
Books to a booker
|
?And Shocks to a sinner?
|
No
|
|
?I am freezing high, I am freezing low?
|
?In fact I’m freezing from the cold?
|
On and on and on, on and on from midnight to the break of dawn
|
I shiver in the shower, stutter on the phone and I wonder why I end up an
|
Eskimo
|
I like to move where I can prove, once removed and twice confused
|
Go South where the sun is hot
|
Go South where the landlord’s not
|
New York
|
|
?I don’t mind I’m on the spot?
|
?This new year comes, I’d rather freeze?
|
?I’m the person who’s rather freeze?
|
|
-----------------
|
Yella
|
| Tom Tom Club |
