Shattered shattered

Love and hope and sex and dreams

Are still surviving on the street

Look at me - I'm in tatters

I'm a shattered

Shattered

Friends are so alarming

And my lover's never charming

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street

Big Apple

People dressed in plastic bags

Directing traffic

Some kind of fashion

Shattered

Laughter joy and loneliness

And sex and sex and sex and sex

Look at me - I'm in tatters

I 'm a shattered

Shattered

All this chitter-chatter

Chitter-chatter chitter-chatter 'bout

Shmatta shmatta shmatta

I can't give it away on 7th Avenue

This town's been wearing tatters (shattered shattered)

Work and work for love and sex

Ain't you hungry for success success success success

Does it matter (Shattered) Does it shatter

I'm shattered

I'm a shattered

Look at me - I'm a shattered yeah

Pride and joy and greed and sex

That's what makes our town the best

Pride and joy and dirty dreams

And still surviving on the street

And look at me - I'm in tatters yeah

I've been battered what does it matter

Does it matter uh-huh

Does it matter uh-huh I'm a shattered

Don't you know the crime rate is going up up up up up

To live in this town

You must be tough tough tough tough tough

You got rats on the west side

Bed bugs uptown

What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered

My brain's been battered - splattered - all over Manhattan

Uh-huh This town's full of money grabbers

Go ahead

Bite the Big Apple don't mind the maggots huh

Shadoobie My brain's been battered

My friends they come around they

Flatter flatter flatter flatter flatter flatter flatter

Pile it up pile it high on the platter