Well, I´m stranded in the city that never sleeps
Some of these women they just give me the creeps
I´m avoidin´ the Southside the best I can
These memories I got, they can strangle a man

Well I came ashore in the dead of the night
Lot of things can get in the way when you´re tryin´ to do what´s right
You don´t understand it—my feelings for you
You´d be honest with me if only you knew

I´m not sorry for nothin´ I´ve done
I´m glad I fought—I only wish we´d won
The Siamese twins are comin´ to town
People can´t wait—they´re gathered around

When I left my home the sky split open wide
I never wanted to go back there—I´d rather have died
You don´t understand it—my feelings for you
You´d be honest with me if only you knew

My woman got a face like a teddy bear
She´s tossin´ a baseball bat in the air
The meat is so tough you can´t cut it with a sword
I´m crashin´ my car, trunk first into the boards

You say my eyes are pretty and my smile is nice
Well, I´ll sell it to ya at a reduced price
You don´t understand it—my feelings for you
You´d be honest with me, if only you knew

Some things are too terrible to be true
I won´t come here no more if it bothers you
The Southern Pacific leaving me at nine forty-five
I´m having a hard time believin´ some people were ever alive

I´m stark naked, but I don´t care
I´m going off into the woods, I´m huntin´ bare
You don´t understand it—my feelings for you
Well, you´d be honest with me if only you knew

I´m here to create the new imperial empire
I´m going to do whatever circumstances require
I care so much for you—didn´t think that I could
I can´t tell my heart that you´re no good

Well, my parents they warned me not to waste my years
And I still got their advice oozing out of my ears
You don´t understand it—my feelings for you
Well, you´d be honest with me if only you knew