Your Latest Trick (Remastered 1996)

All the late night bargains have been struck

Between the satin beaus and their belles

Prehistoric garbage trucks

Have the city to themselves

Echoes roar dinosaurs

They're all doin' the monster mash

And most of the taxis, most of the whores

Are only takin' calls for cash

I don't know how it happened

It all took place so quick

But all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick

Well, now my door was standin' open

Security were laid back and lax

But it was only my heart that got broken

You must have had a pass key made out of wax

You played robbery with insolence

And I played the blues in 12 bars down Lover's Lane

And you never did have the intelligence to use

The 12 keys hangin' off from my chain

I don't know how it happened

It all took place so quick

But all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick

Now it's past last call for alcohol

Past recall has been here and gone

The landlord, he finally paid us all

The satin jazzmen have put away their horns

And we're standin' outside of this wonderland

Looking so bereaved and so bereft

Like a bowery bum when he finally understands

The bottle's empty and there's nothin' left

I don't know how it happened

It was faster than the eye could flick

But all I can do is hand it to you

And your latest trick