GCG
When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime too
GCG
And your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through
CG
Don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
DCG
They got some hungry women there and they really make a mess outa you
Now if you see Saint Annie please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move my fingers are all in a knot
I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor won't even say what it is I've got
Sweet Melinda the peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good English and she invites you up into her room
And you're so kind and careful not to go to her too soon
And she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon
Up on Housing Project Hill it's either fortune or fame
You must pick up one or the other though neither of them are to be what they claim
If you're lookin' to get silly you better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don't need you ynd man they expect the same
Now all the authorities they just stand around and boast
How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post
And picking up Angel who just arrived here from the coast
Who looked so fine at first but left looking just like a ghost
I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough
But the joke was on me there was nobody even there to call my bluff
I'm going back to New York City I do believe I've had enough
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.