No Woman Around

On the main streets and the avenues
 In the condos white as knuckles bruised
 With the carmine of the busy liquor bars
 There's a dark and mystic beauty
 To these inner-city girls
 That slide by in the velvet of their cars
 Through the dance halls and the shopping malls
 And the subways filled with Dresden dolls
 To the school of fallen angels on the ground
 The whole city's just an expensive whore
 A forest nymph with a pompadour
 But there ain't no woman around
 No, there ain't no woman around
 No, there ain't no woman around
 Well, I'm surrounded by these girls
 But there just ain't no woman around
 And the girl that fills my bed
 Will hear the words I should've said
 To the only true love I ever found
 I'll pretend that make-up in her purse
 Is a day-dream, not a curse
 That comes just to kick me down
 I can still taste the youth of her kiss
 Maybe it's the childhood that I missed
 The first time around there's a weird shape to her charms
 There's a strange meat on her arms
 But there ain't no woman around
 No, there ain't no woman around
 No, there ain't no woman around
 Well, I'm surrounded by these girls
 But there just ain't no woman around
 Sometimes I feel I'm running
 Like a fever through the night
 And I've run myself straight into the ground
 I miss your smile, your name
 And your breath on my skin
 And I'm lost and alone in this crowd
 From the locks and curls and strings of pearls
 To the drunk and eager, jelly girls
 It's an all-day floor show Matinee in town
 And it suddenly occurs that I'm surrounded by these girls
 But there ain't no woman around
 No, there ain't no woman around
 No, there ain't no woman around
 Well, I'm surrounded by these girls
 But there just ain't no woman around