I´m up on the eleventh floor
And I´m watching the cruisers below
My heart´s in the basement
My weekend´s
at an all time low
He´s down on the street
And he´s trying hard
to pull sister Flo

´Cause she´s hoping to score
So I can´t see her
letting him go
Walk out of her heart
Walk out of her mind

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She´s so swishy in her satin and tat
In her frock coat
and bipperty-bopperty hat
Oh God, I could do better than that

She´s an old-time ambassador
Of sweet talking, night walking games
And she´s known in the darkest clubs
For pushing ahead of the dames
If she says she can do it
Then she can do it,
she don´t make false claims
But she´s a Queen,
and such are queens
That your laughter
is sucked in their brains
Now she´s leading him on
And she´ll lay him right down
But it could have been me
Yes, it could have been me
Why didn´t I say,
why didn´t I say, no, no, no

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So I lay down a while
And I look at my hotel wall
Oh the cot is so cold
It don´t feel like no bed at all
Yeah I lay down a while
And I look at my hotel wall
But he´s down on the street
So I throw both his bags down the hall
And I´m phoning a cab
´Cause my stomach feels small
There´s a taste in my mouth
And it´s no taste at all

It could have been me
Oh yeah, it could have been me
Why didn´t I say,
Why didn´t I say, no, no, no

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